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Dec. 15, 2022

644: Sell More by Criticizing Less

15 years ago, I tipped the scales at over 385 lbs. So many people tried to get me to lose weight, but all of their pleading always consisted some subtle criticism... a criticism that only pushed me to eat further. What if we're doing the same things with our prospects when we're constantly criticizing our competition in the world of sales?

Discover the power of persuasive influence with Brian Nichols as he explores the art of selling liberty through compassion and understanding. In this episode of The Brian Nichols Show, you'll learn how to revolutionize your approach to political discourse and captivate the hearts and minds of those around you.

Are you tired of ineffective criticism and the alienation that comes with it? Let Brian show you how a simple shift in perspective can make all the difference. Hear his personal story of how a doctor's heartfelt expression of love impacted his life, and learn how to apply these principles to your own activism.

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Brian Nichols  0:03  
How can we sell more liberty by criticizing less? Yeah, let's talk about that. Instead of focusing on winning arguments, we're teaching the basic fundamentals of sales and marketing and how we can use them to win in the world of politics, teaching you how to meet people where they're at on the issues they care about.

Unknown Speaker  0:18  
Welcome to The Brian Nichols Show. Well, happy Thursday there, folks, Brian Nichols, you're on The Brian Nichols Show. And thank you for joining us on of course, the fundamentals episode,

Brian Nichols  0:29  
I am as always your humble host, my god Stratus ip studios, here at lovely Eastern Indiana, don't let cyber attacks or outdated Business Technology, put your company at risk. Learn more at the Brian Nichols show.com, forward slash Stratus ip Stratus ip Business Technology simplified criticism who likes being criticized show of hands anyone know nobody likes being criticized. As matter of fact, many of us not only go out of our way to avoid criticism that but also we remember those who have criticized us to the point that we will hold grudges for decades on end, I remember there's an old lady at my church when I was growing up. And she held a grudge to another old lady at that church. And they held that grudge, literally as long as I could remember until they both passed away holding on to that grudge. And you look at libertarians, Libertarians looking a lot at you. Specifically, we hold grudges when we're talking to our friends on the left and the right in terms of being able to say, Yeah, we can't let things go in order to grow our movement and to actually build some bridges and move things forward. So I'm going to talk about how we can maybe go ahead and sell more liberty, by criticizing lesson we're going to do so by a story, I promise, this story is a little weird, when you hear the way I'm going to frame it. But it makes sense in terms of how it works when we're talking about criticizing less in order to sell more. And this goes back to a personal story for me. And that is way back when I was a very, very heavy guy. Back when I weighed 385 pounds way back in the day. Yeah, I know. I know. I know, believe it or not, yours truly used to weigh 385 pounds. And when I did, I was secretly miserable. And I held a lot of those feelings inside. Were regardless of what my my physical health was actually doing to me. I knew I had to make a change, I just I wouldn't do it. And I remember the the kids in school, the really popular kids, the athletic kids, the kids I secretly was really envious of trying to like get me to get more healthy to try and encourage me to do things that were more physically fit. But they didn't do so in a nice way. Really backhanded ways of saying hey, you should probably lose some weight, Brian, and you might, you know, feel a little bit better, maybe have better luck with the ladies. And you know, that was something that hit me. I was like, No, I'm not going to change the way I am. I'm perfect the way I am. For that million times. No, I wasn't perfect the way I was. As a matter of fact, those guys were right, I would have been happier. But see, here's the thing. They were criticizing me. They were calling me very insulting in mean names. Because I was overweight. On the side of trying to at least it seemed to make me better. Guess that's to be determined. But regardless, I look at that example in my life where I was criticized and I'm sure we all have moments where we've been criticized. And we've fought back, we've pushed back. As a matter of fact, I when I was criticized about my weight, would in turn eat more. That was my coping mechanism. So when I would get criticized, I actually ended up doing worse to my my health by causing more problems. But it was when someone in this case it was a doctor, a family doctor of mine, who expressed not criticism, but love and empathy. And caring about not me simply just losing weight, but because of what it would do to me if I did it. And that person caring for me as a person, beyond just them being a doctor and that's their, their job is to make me healthy, because they knew and beyond that the personal stuff, but also the physical stuff, that I was not healthy, and showing me the love and showing me that the vision that I needed in order to take that step forward. Wasn't through the lens of criticism, but through the lens of love. Now, that doesn't mean we don't criticize ever. It's important to call things out where necessary, but it's important to do so. In a smart Center. Dziedzic an effective manner. So matter of fact, yours truly wrote an article, way back in 2018, I think it was called Dear fat people, which ruffled a lot of feathers. But it wasn't a matter of criticism, but or a matter of love. In my article, it was about not reaffirming and encouraging negative behaviors that actually cause more pain caused more problems for the people that they're supposed to be speaking to. But rather, instead going the route of saying, I love you enough, because I've been in your shoes, quite literally, formerly weighing 385 pounds to know that mentality that you hold is self destructive. And I want to help break that. Because I love you. I want to see you do better. We saw this with COVID. A lot of us with our family and friends who were so blindly and militantly jumping on board with the COVID narrative. We didn't criticize we are trying to say I almost said the word save, but truly a lot of our worlds, save the ones we loved. So we can show our ideas and our beliefs and get more people on board with them not through criticizing others, but rather by embracing them with love libertarians looking at you guys. This is so important for us in order to grow the movement because we have for so long, ignored so many folks that we think we should be criticizing because they have somehow wronged us. So let's in turn, change the perspective. Let's change the mentality. And let's start leading with love. It's my buddy Shane Hazel's been doing over his amazing show radical. Go ahead and give him subscribe now yo, Shane. But also please go ahead and support folks who are encouraging the message of love. So a different episode, we had a little bit of a snafu with our scheduling of our guests. So I said, where should we talk about today? This is one thing it's been top my mind I especially when I go on social media, I just constantly I'm looking at right now I see the Twitter feed going. It's constant negativity. So if you want to see things get better it starts with you. Starts with us being the change that we want to see in the world. So a short episode for today. And hopefully you got some value from it. If you did, go ahead, do ahead. Go ahead, give me a share over on social media and go ahead and tag me at BEA Nichols liberty, Twitter, and Facebook is where you can find me most of my time. Otherwise, please, if you enjoy the episode, let me know about it, Brian, and Brian Nichols. show.com. And also did you know you can support the show? For less literally less than a cup of coffee? How about $1.99 a month? 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