NLP Skills: Preference Areas

I recently discovered something. In a public training, when I let participants choose where they ought to sit, they automatically sat in places where they had the center of the stage as their preference area.

In other words, those sitting on the right (facing the stage) had their preference areas to the left. Those sitting on the left (facing the stage) had their preference areas of the right.

What is a preference area?

Well, you’ll think of two independent images of two people. One whom you like, the other you dislike and place them side-by-side. You’ll realize that they fall in place naturally. If the person you like is to your left, then your preference area will be naturally left as well.

This way, you will understand that other people too have preference areas, and adjust the way you stand, and the location you stand in relation to their preference area. They are going to be more readily persuaded.

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