Have you ever had the experience of talking with someone and they just wouldn’t be quiet long enough for you to get your word in? Better yet, would you like to get them to be quiet and stay quiet? Long enough so that you can keep the person on hold so you can get on with your covert tactics? Because surely you DO WANT to have the advantage and control in a social conversation; am I right?

Have you figured out what it is yet? If you’re still here reading then it’s obviously working - proof already how powerful this is. Please don’t get angry and stop reading because I am trying to prove a point here.

It’s really simple. Ask them questions?! Just like I did in the above paragraphs. To keep this quick and to the point, questions lead people’s thinking. It worked on you am I right? When you ask a person a question they have to go in their mind and try to locate an answer. While they are going hmmmm? You can hit them with another question, then another. Be careful not to do this too much as it might become frustrating for them. But at first you may so you can get the hang of it like I did when I was first learning. I remember a time when I was in a bar and I started talking to this beautiful woman and just to have fun I decided to ask nothing but questions. As we were talking, just when I noticed her getting frustrated I would nail her with a “are you getting mad at me?” with a puppy dog, innocent look on my face. I’ll bet you can guess what happened next. I don’t know exactly how many questions I asked her that night but I am willing to bet it was close to around 60. By the time I got done asking all these questions, I had her asking me to leave, and go have coffee so we could get to know each other more! And the rest is history. I could go on but I’m not going to go into great detail with all that was said. I simply had to prove to myself that it worked and it really does. After a little practice I got really good at it too, and you can too.