There exists a terrible book called - how to make friends and influence people - i recall hearing that this book has only been outsold by the bible!

now the premise of the book or that which my dad told me (once a firm believer in the theory) was that you need to sweet talk and compliment people in order for them to like you - you stroke their ego and wham you fall into their favor.

Now im not sure i would like people much who would fall for such a shallow trick and having observed suggestive power in practice i formulated a different way of looking at it.

Lowest common denominator:

I usually find that communication tend to become less focused the more people are involved with it. Im a big fan of one on one as it seems energetically the most effective - group discussions invoke too much competition in needing to be heard which sometime limits the potential of the discussion - then again a surprising variable can stimulate allot.

If we were all just real numbers (excluding 1 for illustration purposes) - some numbers could be considered having more suggestive power over others say all those divisible into it

A nr 10 person would have power of influence over a nr 5 and nr 2 - be friendly with other nr 10's considered your equals and may find yourself working for your boss a nr 100

a nr 2 would have friends but no suggestive power

A nr 100 person influence over a Nr 50, 25, 10, 5, 2 etc

Take a motivational speaker say at 500 - he may be a higher than your average person and would have the power to influence over allot of lower numbers - his methods would create the limits of his influence and some higher ranking individuals would simply find him not very motivational at all!

Now if one were to be a complicated individual not really susceptable to the everyday razz matazz of people who play themselves as powerful and should yourself being a Nr 2373 you would have influence say over a seemingly rare nr 791 a fairly eccentric nr 339 and unlucky 113 - creating a particularly interesting crowd to hang out with.

you can be born with a specific number and stay that number your entire life - You could develop your number using a system like the corporate ladder or politics that will create a number for you but can take it away too

you could develop your number by yourself using a course that could promise you the potential of another number but could not guarantee it

Money could buy you a number but you will be perceived as a fraud if you cant fill the shoes of of the number you faking

Glamour could fake you a number too but you would probably only have influence over those who subscribe to that numbers glamour - like the celebrity game

or you could find yourself being a genius who is never understood simply because your number has mutated into a form no-one can identify

a number 100 would be able to conceive a nr 1000 but would struggle getting a grip on a nr 113

makes one think what the the optimal number would be to be