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  TTrivia: The first known use of the word pandemic was in the year 1666.
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Joe Biden's Text

  TTrivia: If you take the year 2020. Divide it by 666. You get 3.033033033. If you drop the decimal point, and take the first five numbers. You get 30330 which is Joe Biden's text number.

How to Influence

1.  Use everyone agrees with me.   2.  Lead with your best position.   3.  Use a deep voice. 4.  Oppose their source. 5.  Connect personally with the other person.  6.  Speak simply to the point. 7.  Use the top or bottom benefits of a list. 8.  Use an authority to support your position. 9.   Repeat your position clearly and often. 10.  Use common acceptance. 11.  Create a sense of urgency.  

Creative Communication

1. Communicate in creative ways. 2. Focus on the positives of what your asking for.   3. Reduce risk, so people will be more likely to do what you ask .   Increase risk i f you're trying to get them not to do something.  4. Focus on the behavior and not the individual.   Such as you didn't do this right.  Say this wasn't done right. 5. Give people options.  6. Focus on what you'd like for others to do first. 7. Occasionally, rhyme your ideas to improve retention.  Such as...be a buddy and not a bully.  

Ways to influence others.

1. Don't say "I think"... which communicate uncertainty.    2. Maintain Eye Contact when talking... which communicates dominance.     3. Nod when you make  a point which gains the hearer's acceptance. 4. Contagious yawning.  If they yawn too, this shows they were focusing on you. 5. Listen while paraphrasing back when communicates understanding. 6. Ask frequent questions. 7. Create false dilemmas such as will you do this at 11 or 5? 8. Tell a story, and then be silent waiting for the hearer to tell their story. 9. Break tension by eating together.  10. Cure nerves by eating by yourself. 11.  Focus on what you say in the beginning and what you say in the end.  People tend to remember these most. 12.  Be active together.  People remember what you do together better. 13.  When people laugh together, they look at the person that they like the best.  14.  Use their name and continue to use it during the conversation. 15.  Embrace silence after a