What angle should I use for my new blog on lying, negotiation, body language etc.?
November 30, 2010 by Admin
Filed under languageblog
I have lots of interest in how to tell if people are lying, and I know a fair amount. I want to start a blog about this, and I’m trying to decide how. I’ve seen some from an academic point of view, while others are more about current events, like is the latest accused murdered lying. I also thought of expanding it to things about body language not related to lying and/or techniques for negotiation. What angle will get the best following that is sustainable?
Negotiation because it’s a lot more indirect. Negotiation is focusing on getting what you want, therefore conviction and even sales. A lie is a sale. A lie is negotiation. It’s getting people to believe your side and the more you want them to believe, the more detail you will add, the more you will embellish your story. I work in sales. If I want to sell well, I go into graphic detail and scientific fact, if that fails I start to negotiate subtly. Asking for preferences, what kind of smell do you like (lotion), what consistency, what were you looking for it to do. We have this and that but it lacks this other thing, BUT I can get you… Blah blah. A person sells based on the amount they know and how positive and convincing they are. My boss was selling 80$ face cream, back in the 90′s when she was 17. She pretended to know what she was talking about