Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site wdl1.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!think!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!hpda!fortune!wdl1!jbn From: jbn@wdl1.UUCP Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Re: The Attitude Message-ID: <597@wdl1.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 10:56:48 EDT Article-I.D.: wdl1.597 Posted: Mon Aug 5 10:56:48 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Aug-85 05:23:11 EDT Sender: notes@wdl1.UUCP Organization: Ford Aerospace, Western Development Laboratories Lines: 29 Nf-ID: #R:unc:-800:wdl1:4200030:000:1317 Nf-From: wdl1!jbn Jul 26 16:39:00 1985 The feeling is one of rank; when you feel that you outrank the person you're dealing with, they are likely to acquiesce in what you want. Ranking is seen amongst many animals, not just humans; it seems to be wired into us at a fairly low level. But once you figure this out, you can manipulate the cues by which ranking signals are transmitted. This takes a modest amount of knowledge and much confidence. But it's learnable. I learned how to do this late in life, when training an enormous black horse (a Percheron) as a riding animal. This monster had a strong personality and bucked off several riders, but by refusing to back down when he challenged me and being more stubborn than he was, I was able to make him obey me. Since facing down that sixteen hundred pound beast, people just don't seem intimidating any more. John Nagle Some reading: ``You must be joking, Mr. Feynman'', by Richard Feynman (See the chapter ``So THATs how you get them?'') ``Power - how to get it, how to use it'', by Michael Korda (A classic in pop-psych books). ``Talking with Horses'', by Henry Blake (Life in the herd, and how horses communicate). ``War as I knew it'', by George S. Patton. (Patton explains why and how he maintained the image he did; it was deliberate and for a purpose.)