🌴197. Learn the lyrics
In today’s episode, I’m digging up a concept I wrote about last year that’s suddenly getting a second life: The Influence Manifesto.
While I didn’t get to cover every part of it, one line in particular really stood out to a client today—and I wanted to explore it with you here. That line?
“Learn the lyrics. Sing them back to your stakeholders.”
Credit to Pat Flynn for sparking the idea in his book Superfans, but the principle is something I use all the time—in facilitation, in writing, in influence, in marketing.
🎤 In this ep, I share:
How I ran a listening tour during COVID (and made friends + money from it)Why using their words is more powerful than trying to be cleverThe sneaky power of mirroring (and why NLP practitioners love it)How I sold out a program simply by quoting someone’s exact phrase back to themWhy I think learning the lyrics is an underrated superpowerYou don’t have to be a wordsmith to be influential—you just need to be a great notetaker and listener.
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