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It's a foot in the door, you obtain a little something to obtain much more afterward.

It's because we tend to not contradict ourselves and act the way we acted, because doing otherwise would be irrational, right? :D

"I've started to talk to this stranger, there is no reason I stop now".

Of course there must be a ground for agreement in the first place, you cannot force someone to do something he absolutely doesn't want to do with this technique.



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