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There are various methods of getting someone to do what you want, ranging from using the magic word “please” , to hiring an assassin to threaten to kill the person unless he complies to your wishes. Two extremely common practices depending whether you’re in playground disney or in North Korea. Anyway, regardless of the point of origin, here is one technique that is universally applicable in helping you convince someone to do what you wnat. I call this technique : “The Rule Of Three”.

But first, let me explain to you this technique.

If you noticed, almost everything we do in our lives come in threes, for example it’s “Ready, set, go!” , “3, 2, 1 fire!” , the traffic light has threes colors, green, orange and red. And then there’s the holy trinity, Father, Spirit, Son. All in all, our lives are filled with threes, resulting in the subconscious association of the number three as being right. Yup, two seems one too little and four seems one too many. Three seems just right.

With this knowledge in mind, how can we use this to our advantage and.. take over the world? *evil laughter*. Well, okay, let’s not jump to taking over the world just yet, we’ll get to that later. Let’s start with attempting to win an argument with your girlfriend or boyfriend first.

First off, you should phrase your points in threes, instead of giving one single argument on why watching Twilight is bad, like “I don’t like Edward Cullen”, present three points instead, like “I don’t like Edward Cullen”, “I don’t support the abuse and use of steroids as seen in Jacob Black” and “Guys should never use glitter on themselves”. There you go, sounds much more convincing and persuasive eh? (:

Well, besides the additional 2 points, the fact that there were three reasons provided instead of two is a huge additional bonus in persuading your girlfriend to not watch the latest release of Eclipse with you.

Now, this “Rule Of Three” technique can really be used for anything, from getting your way out of a bad movie, to convincing your parents to buy you a pet cheetah (still working on the points for this one). So forget your favorite number 7, 11, 13, 18.05..?! Your favorite number from now on should be the number 3, yes, the magic number 3. Cheers (:

Yours sincerely,
Desmond L.