Graham English
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
I used to be an Ecto user but I have since seen the light and call TextMate my be-all-end-all blogging tool. The only thing I missed was being able to use Ecto as my external blog editor while reading feeds in NetNewsWire. Not anymore!
I’m a Facebook fanatic. I joined immediately after they opened to the public. In the beginning, there wasn’t much to talk about. None of my friends had joined and there really wasn’t that much I could do there. But since then, the buzz has caught my friends’ attention and Facebook’s extendibility has grown consistently, giving [...]
I’ve been hacking this auto-journal script for a while and I’ve recently settled on using a local install of WordPress combined with AppleScript and Quicksilver. It’s really pretty easy.
Follow MacZealots’ tutorial on Installing WordPress on Tiger. If you have any trouble along the way, you might need to check out Mac OS X Server 10.4.4: [...]
I’ve been thinking more and more about focus. So much competes for my attention second by second (that’s you, Twitter and BlackBerry) that it’s never been more important to practice sustaining focus. The quality of my consciousness and the quality of my attention determine the quality of my life.
What needs to remain a touchstone in [...]
I got really tired of updating my online status on Skype and iChat every time I had to step away from my computer. I thought to myself, wouldn’t it be cool if I could update all my instant message apps at once with a few keystrokes using Quicksilver?
My previous attempt at a time-tracking script worked well for a while. But I wanted something that was self-contained so I could share it with my friends and coworkers. I also wanted to cut down on key strokes.
I’m into systems. I love figuring out how to get from point A to point B and then optimizing the process as efficiently as possible. Better yet, I love being able to turn a system on and not have to think about it again.
This is one of those systems. I’m an entrepreneur. I don’t have [...]
When I read that you could use Quicksilver with Twitter, I felt as excited as Jack Bauer in an interrogation room full of terror suspects. It all started with Twitter Fan Wiki. And then I lost myself in hours of troubleshooting as I tried to force hack after hack to work the way I wanted them to. As these things are, it wasn’t nearly as hard in the end as all the work that led up to the final result.
First of all, hypnotic language, I believe, has lost much of its power due to saturation in marketing and media. While many of the principles still apply, the actual language needs to evolve. The best case I have heard in support of this comes from Ari Galper. He understands this very well and has fresh [...]
A. Gaining someone’s trust is done by:
Creating rapport
Babysitting
Hiding your true intentions
Taking them to dinner
B. Hypnotic language patterns include:
Embedded commands
Command verbs
States, Processes, or Experiences
All of the above
C. Anchoring involves:
Bringing your prospects down
Eliciting a specific response
Shock treatment
A foot massage
D. Trance is:
A naturally occurring state
An altered state of mind
Bringing the unconscious into consciousness
All of the above
E. Values are:
The [...]
What if there was a way to distort a prospective customer’s sense of time and make it seem like they’ve already bought your product and have, in fact, enjoyed using it for a long time already. Would you look back at reading this paragraph, say a week from now, and realize that your entire life was a series of events that brought you to this very moment of understanding?
The word “trance” conjurs up all sorts of images. Snake charmers, zombies, spaced out dreamers. But trance is really a naturally occuring state. We go in and out of trance many times throughout the day.
But trance is not our “normal” state of mind. Trance is an altered state of consciousness. The method by which we [...]
What if you could install a button in your prospect that whenever you pressed it, it would trigger any behavior or emotion you want?
Then you’ll want to master the art of anchoring!
Let’s say you have a meeting with a prospect. During this meeting you build states of excitement and motivation in the prospect. Then the [...]
There are ways of giving commands to people without their conscious awareness of ever having received a command. The trick is to embed the command within a sentence that’s specifically designed to bypass the conscious mind. Let’s take a look at the following sentence:
We resist people we don’t trust. Gaining an unconscious connection with people will powerfully influence the speed towards your intended interpersonal outcomes.
You can create hypnotic rapport through imitating someone’s current behavior. This is commonly referred to as mirroring or pacing — and it happens quite naturally. You can mirror someone’s behavior on many different [...]
A. The most crucial part of effective communication is:
Proper grammar
Asking questions
Having charisma
Establishing an outcome
B. Hypnosis is:
New Age mumbo-jumbo
Bypassing the critical mind
The Beta state
A Pill
C. Hypnotic Influence:
Relates to your listener’s subjective experience
Alters the listener’s state of mind
Reaches the listener’s unconscious mind
All of the above
D. Submodalities are:
Going deeper into the mind
States of mind
The building blocks of sensory [...]
So you might have an idea of what Hypnotic Influence could look like. You might realize that effective influence is a very attainable skill. But are you willing to do what it takes?
Begin by asking yourself the most motivation question of all: “What’s in it for me?”
Stop for a moment and imagine how good your [...]
Recently, a friend asked me if I ever go into that state between being in a dream and being awake. He mentioned how in that state you begin to visualize amazing things, and how you can really feel the intense excitement of your dreams. He said that the interesting thing about being able to enter [...]
Milton Erickson’s power of influence was legendary. He was considered the greatest innovator of hypnosis and became famous for his unique hypnotic methods. He could put people into a hypnotic trance just by shaking hands.
What Erickson understood was that while speaking to a client at a conscious level, they were also listening at an unconscious [...]
People travel through many states of mind throughout any given day. We may feel tired when we wake up, refreshed after a shower, energized after our morning coffee, and bored during a company meeting.
Most people go through life letting the situations they find themselves in unknowingly manipulate their state of mind. “The boss did this [...]
about grahamI'm a songwriter and recording artist who sings, plays keyboards, and explores the vast world of sound hoping to find some magical moments along the way. I'm also a Mac geek.
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