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Hypnosis and communications

Hypnosis and communications

I read an interview with Thom Hartmann that was not only politically interesting, but had some good insight on communications. Hartmann has written a book Cracking the Code involving communications. Regarding communications he noted that: "[techniques] have to do with pacing and using different modalities as you speak." That’s a fundamental law of communication: it’s not what you say, it’s what is heard that counts. From a political communications standpoint, he says the Democrats have had really stupid advisor’s for…

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Voir dire done right

Voir dire done right

I am on a message board with plaintiff lawyers across the country in an invitational group I belong to who exchange ideas. An excellent trial lawyer in the South starts a trial Monday with some underlying issues that concerned her. I was interested in all the different ideas and approaches lawyers suggested. Some of these suggestions indicated to me that the lawyer making the suggestion thought that voir should involve carefully worded questions to convince and persuade. This is just…

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Itinerant photographers

Itinerant photographers

Gerry Spence and I have flown to New Orleans with our camera equipment to take photos and escape work. We have managed to do that just as hurricane Ida is to arrive with high winds and flooding rain. As it turns out the storm missed us and we ended up with only a little rain. We have been driven all over the area in search of the uniqueto photograph. We’ve missed out on all the night life since we are…

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