We all know how hard it is to ask for something. It’s even harder when we don’t think that our request will be granted, but there are some mathematical tricks you can use to increase your odds of getting what you want dramatically. If you’re tempted not to make any requests because they seem like long shots, then remember – just try! You might have better luck than expected 🙂
- Why you need to go past your comfort zone.
- The reason people stop at the first ask.
- How to use the law of large numbers.
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– TRANSCRIPT –
David Wood: [00:00:00] If I could just download into everyone’s brain right now, the number of things I’ve asked for and gotten a no or no response, you’d be stunned. I’ve been blessed with some success in my life and some people see that and go, oh, you just know how to do it, or you’ve got special skills or well, some of that might be true, but largely I’ve just asked for so much.
Patrick Rothfuss the author. It took me a couple of years, just percolating, just thinking. I actually wish he’d finished his third book. We’ve been waiting 10 years for it. Finally, I thought I could do something about that. So I sent a message through his website to say, Hey, totally self-interest here. I want to offer to coach you to help you work on this book, because I want to read it. Now didn’t get a response, but you add those up like a hundred, 200, 300, a thousand, 3000, 5000. I once reached out to Tom Cruise’s personal assistant to say, I’d like to coach Tom.
Just, it just came up in me. And I finally I’m like, oh, I got the impulse. The day I got the impulse to call Jack Canfield. I’d wanted to call his office and ask him if he’d come and speak at my live event, I was so scared to do it. And then one day just thinking about it, daydreaming about it.
I’m like, oh, damn it. Give me that phone. Call the phone. He happened to be in. They happened to put me through and I got him on the phone and I said, I would orient my entire event around when you’re going to be in town. So you don’t even have to do a special trip. What would it take to enroll you in speaking at my event. Lo and behold, it happened, but that’s one of the one in 500, one in a thousand requests that come through.
I get a few of them because I asked for so many. And when Jack came and spoke at my event, he himself talked about the law of large numbers. Yeah, I’ve never put that together. That, that I used the law of large numbers to get him to speak at the event about the law of large numbers.
