What we can learn about influence from the story of the Trojan Horse?
According to Greek mythology, there once lived a group of people known as the Trojans. They lived in the city of Troy, where it was surrounded by huge tall walls and heavily guarded by capable soldiers.
For a long time, the Trojans’ greatest enemies (the Greeks) have been trying to conquer the city but to no avail. Eventually the Greeks came up with a brilliant plan to take down the city of Troy. Pretending that they had been defeated, they left a huge wooden horse outside the city gates, and retreated to the nearby mountains.
Believing that they had emerged victorious, the Trojans eventually opened the gates and brought the huge wooden horse into the city. Unknown to the Trojans, the Greeks had actually planted some of their most capable soldiers in the wooden horse.
When everyone was sound asleep during late night, the Greek soldiers came out of the wooden horse and opened the city gates, allowing the rest of the soldiers to flood into the city of Troy.
At last, the Greeks had conquered the city which was once perceived to be an impregnable fortress.
Why do you struggle to influence?
While you have most probably heard the story of the Trojan Horse before, have you ever wondered how you could use what you have learned from the story to improve your ability to influence?
You see, the Trojan horse is really a metaphor of how you could communicate to anyone in your life with greater influence. Just like the impregnable fortress we saw in the story, it is not difficult to detect an invisible barrier that tends to exist when you are communicating to someone. In psychology, we termed this as the Critical Faculty.
This explains why you have probably struggled often to sell your products to your prospects, or why you have probably tried in vain to convince your boss to give you a pay rise.
Unless you find a way to bypass the Critical Faculty, you can never truly master the art of influence.
NLP has broken the secret code of influence
For close to 45 years, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) has been proven as a consolidated system of the art and science of human excellence for success, empowering many people to reach new heights in influence and persuasion.
Used by countless great orators and charismatic leaders the likes of the President of United States Barack Obama, American top talk-show host and entrepreneur Oprah Winfrey, British Labour Party statesman Tony Blair and Apple Inc. co-founder the late Steve Jobs, NLP is extremely effective when used for influence because it comprises of a proven set of techniques which will allow you to bypass the Critical Faculty in communication.
For instance, in the case of my client Gin here, just an hour of NLP coaching with him eventually resulted in him closing a business deal within the next 2 hours!
So if you’d ready to finally master the ultimate science and art of influence, contact us at enquiry@acmeachievers.com today and discover what the “NLP Trojan Horse” is all about.
I look forward to connecting with you again soon!
Wishing you Success,
NLP Trainer Jacky Lim