The Art of Persuasion (Collection)

Get Someone to Do the Asking for You

If you don’t want to have to ask, why not get someone else to do it for you? No this won’t always work, but it often can. Either you get them to ask directly, or you get them to sound out the other person so you know their likely response. It’ll be much easier to go on and ask for yourself if you already know they’re going to say yes.

Thank you, yes, I have noticed the deliberate mistake. You’ll still have to ask the person who’s doing the asking. I do realize that. Which is why this tactic is for those occasions when it’s easy to ask the go-between. I’m assuming you can ask some people to do some things—it’s just the big stuff you struggle with. Presumably you can ask the dog to sit, or ask your partner to ...