The 20 Most Effective Persuasion Techniques

Learn how to get anything you want from anyone using these simple, effective, and powerful persuasion techniques. These are guaranteed to change your life, especially if you are a seal or a small house cat.

The Horizontal Trans-Galoshes Stare

The Horizontal Trans-Galoshes Stare

How to do it: Wait until someone is prone, look quizzical, and make direct eye contact through the gap in their rain boots.
Why this technique works: People who are lying on their backs are particularly vulnerable to the persuasive arts.
Primary practitioners of this technique: Any kind of farm animal, but primarily farm seals.

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The Sideways Tongue Extension

The Sideways Tongue Extension

How to do it: Locate the object you wish to have in your possession and stare at it like you are some kind of love-addled teenager. Act as if you're prepared to throw yourself from a tall building if your passion is denied.
Why this technique works: Melodrama tugs at the heartstrings and aggravates at the same time, and the combination can be devastating.
Primary practitioners of this technique: Idiots.

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The Flip-Flop Hostage

The Flip-Flop Hostage

How to do it: Threaten the sanctity of someone's footwear.
Why this technique works: People need their shoes.
Primary practitioners of this technique: Flip-flop fetishists.

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The "My Arms Are Too Short For My Body" Technique

The "My Arms Are Too Short For My Body" Technique

How to do it: Extend your tiny little arms pathetically in front of your body and squeak.
Why this technique works: Ever since the dinosaurs went extinct because they couldn't reach their breakfasts, people have had a subconscious sympathy for the small-armed.
Primary practitioners of this technique: Dinosaurs and their direct descendant, the common rabbit.

Source: bunnyfood


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