How to bend people to your will
So I'm compiling a piece that's to be part of a two page spread in this week's paper. To do it I sent an email to each commissioner of next year's executive committee on the CSA, asking them to respond to a question about how they're going to deal with student apathy next year. I told them I needed no more than 150 words and that I needed them by 4pm today. Everyone got me 150 words or less, with the last one coming in at 3:34pm.
That's unheard of. Ask for 150, expect 300. Ask for 4pm, expect 6pm.
Want to know how I did it?
I said that I'd cut every word from the 151st on. Even if it was the middle of the sentence.
I said that if it wasn't in by 4pm, it wasn't going in.
Nothing gets the results you want like threatening to show how stupid people actually are.
That's unheard of. Ask for 150, expect 300. Ask for 4pm, expect 6pm.
Want to know how I did it?
I said that I'd cut every word from the 151st on. Even if it was the middle of the sentence.
I said that if it wasn't in by 4pm, it wasn't going in.
Nothing gets the results you want like threatening to show how stupid people actually are.
