what a pleasant day!

ok so there wasn't anything interesting that happened today. woke up feeling fine and dandy. did abit of work in camp, picked up a book on the table my colleague was intending to read for the day but never seemed to find the time to do so. being a nice guy that i was and always have been, i decided to help him read thru the book. it's a book on "influence" by some prof Caidlin or something... that said, i read thru 2.5chapters of it. =_= by 5.30pm when it was time to knock off and go home, i managed to finish reading about 1/3 of the book(over 90 pages) besides doing other stuff...

1. 1hr+ worth of work thingy,
2. watched spiderman2,
3. watched abit of van helsing,
4. had abit of lunch,
5. toilet breaks,
6. get signatures for my clearance form,
7. and even did some bunk cleaning for inspection...

amazing day! haha... silly me. :P

but it was really an interesting read. opens up me to "oh now i get what the advertisers are trying to do...", although i must acknowledge the author may have been biased to his own belief so i should take everything with a pinch of salt and not at it's face value.

let's say for some example's on ppl who can put to use on how to influence their peers... ppl who read my blog... here's a sample of what i read, in my own translation.

eg1: CA is at work and needs to photocopy some stuff at a common photocopier. there's a queue waiting, but she wants to get back to her other work fast. she can ask one of the following questions:

1. "Excuse me, i have 6 pages. can i use the copier first because i am in a hurry?"
2. "Excuse me, can i use the copier first?"
3. "Excuse me, i have 6 pages. can i use the copier first because i have 6 pages?"

According to the study, 1 and 3 will actually work more likely in her advantage as compared to 2, when she asks each of the person in queue in turn, whether she can jump in front of them.

however, notice that at option 3, in comparison with option 1, does not provide new info to the "victim" *ahem* but rather the use of "because" would more likely allow CA an opportunity to have a victim give the go ahead to jump their queue!

fascinating. hehe...