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Hi, this blog post seems to be my first writing in here..

Owh, by the way, have you ever thought that talking to other people about something you want them to do is a difficult thing? Instead of doing what you want, other people just give you the opposite. So disappointed, right? Well, perhaps an information below gives you a point of view how to convince someone to do what you want.

There are 2 (two) techniques to convince someone to do what you want. First, is what called The Foot-in-the-door techniques. You can use this technique when you want something big. In spite of situation that you want something big, you just start to asking something small. Furthermore, people tend to give you the big one after they already given you the small one. For instance, if you want your friend finishing project in instant, who you thought he or she was a due-date-line typical person, u might start to ask he or she to find on the internet about some information you've already listed. Thus, she or he tend to do give you something big after she or he did the first small one.

On the other hand, the second technique is The Door-in-the-face. You start asking something big, though you want something small. Other people will refuse in the first respon, afterward they will give you the small as you want. For example, in the contrast of the example before, you want to do the project in staged process. Simplify, you starting to ask your friends to finishing project instantly. Of course they tend to refuse it. Thus, they tend to give you suggest or doing projects step by step as you want.

Here is just an information about convincing other to do what we want. Well, honestly, I got this information for a recording in toefl practice, if I'm not mistaken, it is from Longman edition. I thought it will very useful for other knowing this information.

Ok, this is it..and and voila! finally, i did it ^_^ my first writing..what is your opinion?