Persuasive writing is an iterative learning process.

Whether composing a tweet, an email, a blog post, a business case, an essay, or a book, you must connect powerfully and viscerally to what reader stands to gain or lose by your proposition—real or imagined. Persuasive writing speaks to your reader’s visceral emotions, and more than just getting them to agree with you, it gets them moving in the same direction. Effectively, your idea becomes your reader’s idea and compels him or her to: start, stop, buy, act, change, invest, or avoid something you are saying.

How would you describe your relationship to death in general, and your death specifically? Is it healthy? How did thoughts of your extinction influence how you lived last week, or how you might live next week? Does the shortening of your remaining time on earth make your life richer? Are you at ease with the specter of the world continuing without you, or do you crowd it out of your mind?

Yeah. It’s true. There are times we don’t love ourselves, and a little bit of this can be a healthy catalyst for positive change. But when a constant feeling of self-loathing pervades our thoughts and actions for an extended period, and we come to believe with certainty that we have little to contribute, or that we don’t matter in the scheme of things, it’s a problem.

More people than ever are flocking to some form of Buddhism to help them understand and cope with the complexity of the Information Age. I find it interesting that much of the symbolism from Buddhist roots in the East have so much relevance in the West more than two thousand years later.

Pain is a significant and often unavoidable part of life. Sometimes the pain is acute, sharp and localized, and other times, pain can be chronic and seemingly everywhere. Sometimes pain is physical, and sometimes pain is psychological or emotional. Pain can range to barely noticeable, to overwhelming and all consuming. It can be passing, or permanent.

The Grass Roots NLP community bids Steve Andreas a fond farewell from this life, and condolences to his family.

Steve was an inspirational member of the NLP community with a unique blend of kindness and care, combined with a scientific mind. Steve always wanted to know what worked for people, and if possible, why.

No Quick NLP Seduction Techniques Here!

Sorry, dear reader... to save us both time, guys looking for NLP tricks to rapidly and covertly seduce their dating partners can move on to other more specialized sites. Respectfully, you won't find that information here... because we believe those techniques generally don’t work on the other person as much as they fool you into being more confident than you might otherwise be. But if you're interested the long view, you might find something useful here.