Learning Persuasion

Goals

  1. Explain how anyone can:
    • Learn persuasion in a way that is super enjoyable.
    • Excel at persuasion once they’ve completed the learning process.
    • Get ongoing payoffs while learning, resulting in a continual ROI (Return on Investment) for their time and effort.
  2. Excel at persuasion if this is worthwhile to you.

How to Learn Persuasion Effectively

Learn persuasion using the research-based method known as Deliberate Practice (DP). Here’s how:

  1. Figure out a fundamental
    Use the lessons in this BookCourse or other trustworthy sources—such as teachers, web articles, or AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini—to identify and figure out a fundamental of persuasion.

  2. Apply the fundamental in the real world

    • Use it in a persuasion task that matters to you.
    • Practice it by using a Task with Feedback (TwF) provided by this BookCourse.

  3. Get feedback
    Observe results and reactions. Gather insights from the outcome or external feedback.

  4. Reflect and refine
    Think about what worked, what didn’t, and how to improve. Identify your next step toward mastery.

Repeat this process, progressively improving your fundamentals. Eventually, persuasion will feel easy, natural, and automatic—and you’ll be great at it.

Why Deliberate Practice (DP) Works

Deliberate Practice (DP) is a powerful, research-backed method for learning and achieving goals. Here’s why it works:

  1. It breaks a goal or topic into its fundamentals.
    A fundamental is something essential for success. Mastering the fundamentals makes success much more likely or inevitable, because they enable progress and results.

  2. It allows you to move forward in small, manageable steps.
    Focusing on one fundamental at a time prevents overwhelm and builds confidence.

  3. It generates two types of real-world rewards:

    • Better results
    • The joy of figuring something out

    These rewards make the process enjoyable and fuel the passion and persistence needed to succeed.

Goals

  1. Explain how anyone can
    1. Learn persuasion in a way that is super enjoyable.
    2. Excel at persuasion once they are done learning.
    3. Get payoffs as they learn so that they get a continual ROI (Return on Investment) for their time and effort.
  2. Learn persuasion using this method if you chose to.

How to Learn Persuasion Effectively

Learn persuasion by using the research-based method known as Deliberate Practice (DP). Here are the steps.

  1. Figure out a fundamental Figure out a fundamental using the lessons in this BookCourse and other resources such as teachers, web-articles, or AI Assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini.
  2. Apply it in the real work – Apply this fundamental
    1. Apply it to a persuasion task of interest to you.
    2. Apply it to a TwF (Task with Feedback) that comes with this BookCourse.
  3. Get feedback – Get information from results, reactions, or
  4. Reflect – think back on your experiences and figure what worked, how to improve concerns, and the next steps towards excellence.

Progressively improve your fundamentals until you have them down. You will know that you have arrived because you will excel at persuasion and it will be easy and automatic for you.

Why Deliberate Practice (DP) Works

Deliberate Practice (DP) is a powerful research-based method for learning and accomplishing goals. Here’s why it works:

  1. It breaks a goal or topic into its fundamentals.
    A fundamental is something essential for success. When you master the fundamentals, success becomes much more likely—because fundamentals enable progress and results.

  2. It allows you to move forward in small, manageable steps.
    Focusing on one fundamental at a time reduces overwhelm and builds confidence.

  3. It generates two kinds of real-world rewards:

    • Better results
    • The joy of figuring something out

    These rewards make the process enjoyable and give you the passion and persistence needed to keep going and succeed.