OUR DEVIL'S-ADVOCATES
In a broad sense, to live well in this world – effectively, successfully and peacefully – we need to ‘sell well’ – sell ourselves, sell our ideas, plans, proposals, dreams… our products and services… Yes, to ‘others’. Just imagine how true it is: Are we all not trying to do exactly that all our lives? The ‘others’ – our ‘prospective customers’ - can be any of these: our parents, children, spouses, siblings or any relatives… They can be our neighbors, strangers, government officials, co-passengers, our teachers or students; they can be our colleagues or bosses, our competitors or clients, our well-wishers or critics… Yes, anybody. If life is about living with all of these… then, we had better be good in human relationship... ‘Others’ don’t buy easily… just as we, too, don’t buy from them easily. They raise ‘objections’ – say ‘No’ – for whatever we try to sell, promote, propose to them… Just as we do every time they try to sell, pr...