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Subject: Re: Re: The Attitude
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 10:56:48 EDT
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      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.)