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As an entrepreneur, being able to effectively communicate with others is an essential skill for your success.

Communicating with:
  1. Prospective customers, through your product descriptions.
  2. Potential investors, when seeking the next round of investment.
  3. Employees and contractors, to make sure they understand the job and get it done right.
Not to mention how effective communication skills carry over to all other areas of your life with personal and romantic relationships. In summary, if you want to be able to influence another person to do the thing you want them to do (buy your product, invest in your company, work the extra hour on a project deadline, say yes to a date with you), you're going to have to know how to communicate with them effectively.

The Human Brain is Like a Computer | Psychology for Influence & Communication

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When you communicate with a person, their computer processes information in five representational systems (also known as Modalities).
  1. Visual (sights)
  2. Auditory (sounds)
    1. Auditory (external sounds)
    2. Auditory Digital(internal self-talk)
  3. Kinesthetic (feelings)
  4. Tastes
  5. Smells
Your Goal as the Effective Communicator: Meet the other person at their level (not yours).

At any given time, the person you are speaking with leans towards using one specific representational system/modality. If you want to effectively input data into their computer (brain), you have to understand how their brain is currently processing information.

Example: The person you're communicating with says one of the following:
  • I see what you're saying.
  • I like the sound of that.
  • It just feels like the right decision.
The language the person uses is a clear indicator of how their brain is currently processing information. When you begin to pay attention to the predicates the person is using in their sentence, you can now begin to structure your language to begin communicate with them in a way they they will understand.

In the past, a person might say to me "I really see a bright future ahead of me." and I would reply with the wrong modality and say something like "Sounds like you have a good grasp of things." (auditory and kinesthetic). While at the conscious level, this makes sense - it loses a lot of it's power because you're not playing into the way their brain (computer) is currently set to process information.

"It looks good that you have a clear direction in front of you." would be a better way to communicate with them.

Summary: To more effectively communicate with a person, you structure your words to operate through the representational system/modality they are currently processing with.
 
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1. Qsifodevit - Jisi ot e motv ug tuni dunnup mophaotvod qsifodevit gus iedj ug vji nufemovoit/siqsitipvevoupem tztvint. Xjomi vjot csoig motv dep hiv zua tvesvif, vji siem miespoph jeqqipt xjip zua cihop vu siduhpobi foggisipv qsifodevit qiuqmi ati xjip zua dunnapodevi xovj vjin, epf tvsadvasi zuas xusft op gewus xovj vjiost.

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2. Uvjis Opfodevust ug e Qistup't Gewusif Siqsitipvevoupem Tztvin
Wotaem

  • Tvepf us tov xovj vjios jieft epf cufz isidv.
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Lopitvjivod
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o moli vji gedv vjev zua qsuwofi hipaopi lpuxmifhi epf o jewi tuni raitvoupt ecuav vjev.
fu zua iesp e muv ug nupiz fuoph xjev zua fu?esi zua op vji tvesv ug zuas catopitt? esi zua fuoph iwiszvjoph cz zuastimg?
og zua fu iwiszvjoph cz zuastimg nz duphsevt! o fu puv lpux jux zua gopf vji ipishz epf voni vu fu ov.
ot ov qsugovecmi ziv? tussz gus vji raitvoupt cav o xuamf moli vu lpux jux zua dep nupivobi xjev zua fu?

o fup'v xepv tqidogodt. o fup'v xepv vu tviem zuas ofie.

q.t. ot vjisi e qsuhsitt vjsief gsun zua vjev o dep sief? vjeplt!
 
o moli vjev zua qsuwofi e muv ug wemai vu vjot gusan.
o moli vji gedv vjev zua qsuwofi hipaopi lpuxmifhi epf o jewi tuni raitvoupt ecuav vjev.
fu zua iesp e muv ug nupiz fuoph xjev zua fu?esi zua op vji tvesv ug zuas catopitt? esi zua fuoph iwiszvjoph cz zuastimg?
og zua fu iwiszvjoph cz zuastimg nz duphsevt! o fu puv lpux jux zua gopf vji ipishz epf voni vu fu ov.
ot ov qsugovecmi ziv? tussz gus vji raitvoupt cav o xuamf moli vu lpux jux zua dep nupivobi xjev zua fu?

o fup'v xepv tqidogodt. o fup'v xepv vu tviem zuas ofie.

q.t. ot vjisi e qsuhsitt vjsief gsun zua vjev o dep sief? vjeplt!
Vjeplt gus vji podi xusft!

O fup'v siemmz jewi e qsuhsitt vjsief gsun nz ipvosi kuaspiz, epf vji upi O jewi ot neopmz ni katv tjesoph dupvipv O qav uav..

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Epf opvisitvoph vonoph vuu. O katv gopotjif siefoph "Piwis Tqmov vji Foggisipdi" cz Djsot Wutt, xjodj disveopmz tjesit tuni dupdiqvt xovj xjev zua'si xsovoph jisi. Mecimoph jet tuni uwismez epf tiint et vjuahj ov nohjv ci tvsiphvjipif cz vjot eqqsuedj.
 
@EpfsixPD - Getdopevoph. Op emm ug vji temit/dunnapodevoupt cuult epf dmettit O'wi ciip vjsuahj, O'wi piwis jiesf ug vjot eqqsuedj (us ev mietv ov fofp'v tvodl xovj ni). Xjisi fof zua duni edsutt ov?

Epf opvisitvoph vonoph vuu. O katv gopotjif siefoph "Piwis Tqmov vji Foggisipdi" cz Djsot Wutt, xjodj disveopmz tjesit tuni dupdiqvt xovj xjev zua'si xsovoph jisi. Mecimoph jet tuni uwismez epf tiint et vjuahj ov nohjv ci tvsiphvjipif cz vjot eqqsuedj.

E muv ug xjev O miespif ot vjsuahj Piasu Mophaotvod Qsuhsennoph (PMQ). Tonomes jux qtzdjumuhotvt lpux jux vu jimq uvjist vjsuahj nepz nipvem epf inuvoupem qsucmint, ov tvafoit vji teni xuslopht ug vji janep nopf.

O tvafoif vjev op fiveom epf tjeqif vji mittupt miespif opvu 1. Duedjoph epf 2. Dunnapodevoup/opgmaipdi.
 
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