John Gafford
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Yeah.
People that I know that I'm friends with that are so โ get so angry over things that are being โ like this is just being fed to you.
Like you have a choice of what you can do.
And it's so funny because we're โ I was talking about this the other day.
We're entering this age of โ
of advanced health enlightenment i feel like i think you know alcohol consumption is down people are eating better um i you know now peptides are the rage you know we're all trying to live forever those if you're north of 50 you're like i just got to make it 15 years and ai is going to keep me alive for the
Whatever it is, I just got to make it like 15 more years, then AI is going to keep me alive.
And everybody's trying to be more healthy, but yet there's some of the same people that are in the gym and doing all these things will put the just nonsense into their head, a steady diet of just absolute garbage into their head.
And I think the way that it triggers these people and the people, and I'm telling you, I think nothing affects your health more than stress.
I think literally how stressed you are, way more important on you than your diet.
And these people get so wound up, so wound up.
Yeah.
I find one of my favorite questions when somebody I know starts babbling on about something that's just insane that they got from the interwebs is I asked them something like, well, what would, what would have to happen for you to change your opinion on that?
What would have to happen for that not to be true?
Like, what would you have to say?
that's a great and then it starts the thought of well maybe maybe i need to look for something that might make this make a little more sense right let me ask you this so obviously with the internet man and videos and trainings and all the stuff and courses and you know the hustle culture that exists within sales and you got the super meathead guys that beat their chest and i'm gonna put you through my sales course and teach you how to make you an ultimate alpha closer and all this stuff well through that
Obviously, there's a lot of behavioral science in it.
And there's, you know, things like NLP and all of this stuff, which there might be some ethical questions for these closing techniques.
So what for you would you consider is ethical persuasion?
So when you ask people in that respect, when you talk to people, do you tell them that gut feeling is normally better than your thought process?