She laughed when I
told her I used hypnosis to sell.
"You can't hypnotize me!" was her challenge. "Ok, so..." The Game was on. Sitting in a coffee shop I put her in a trance to memorize the palm tree. She still complains about knowing the details. So yes hypnosis happens, all the time.
Call it influence, persuasion or the new word of the day. It is all about getting what you want. Study hypnosis, NLP, mind control. It comes back to Salesmanship.
Be overt, covert or a renegade. There are secrets of getting your way yet to learn.
Telling a enchanting story is a good start.
From Kipling
IF....
IF you can keep your head
when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your
master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your
winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your
virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
This is worth memorizing! Go all out. Keep your own consul.