Post-It Love

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You know those little yellow slips of paper that you carry around in your pencil box to help you remind yourself/others what to do? Yes, they’re called Post-its and guess what, the persuasive powers they have contained in them are absolutely amazing.

Anyway, here’s how you can use a post-it to get you a date. But before i tell you how, let me provide you with some scientific explanations on the theory behind this.

The Post-It Love Theory

Scientists have done a research on the effects of post-it notes on humans and their willingness to comply with a request. The experiment basically constituted of two parts. The first would be to simply put a survey on a person’s desk and wait for it to be filled up and returned, the second would be to attach a little hand written post-it note on the survey requesting it be filled up and returned. The findings are as of the below.

1st experiment (without post-it) : 36% of the people complied on filling up the surveys and returning them.

2nd experiment (with post-it) : 76% of the people complied on filling up the surveys and returning them.

So, what’s the phenomenon behind the powers of a post-it note? Was it dipped into a magical perfume beforehand? Could be, i’d never know. Or was the paper enchanted in an oompaloompa ritual by the Kung Bushmen and renamed : Post-it? Again, slightly more possible but i’d never know.

The Scientific Explanation

Scientists have, however, placed the influential effects on the fact that there was a personal handwritten note on the post-it. You see, the handwritten message on the post-it note has massive persuasive powers. In the era of emails and facebook messages / pokes, a personal handwritten post-it note is rare and quite simply put – wonderful. People recognize the extra effort and personal touch that a handwritten post-it has, and like it, in return reciprocating to it’s request.

What About Magical Perfumes & The Kung Bushmen?!

Now,  i’m by no means saying dipping the post-it note into a magical perfume or getting the Kung Bushmen to enchant it in an oompaloompa ritual would not work, but a much simpler solution is definitely to write a personal message instead, yes? UNLESS, you’re an apothecary or a member of the Kung Bushmen tribe of course, which in that case, please drop me an email as i’ll really love to meet you (and request for a love potion from the former).

Ask Your Office’s Hot Secretary Out

So there you go, the next time you’re thinking about asking your office’s hot secretary out on a date, you don’t have to spend a month recording her movements and another month piecing together your master plan on when to ask her out on a date so it coincides with the sunset and the rainbow (i’m not saying i did this), just write her a simply post-it note, draw a sun and a rainbow (use colors if you want but coloring a rainbow’s gonna be troublesome) and write a little “how about dinner? (:” note for her, but most crucially, and i emphasize this – don’t forget to sign off your post-it with  your name!

Yours sincerely,
Desmond L.