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#1: An inmate who preaches "criminal wisdom" of questionable quality, like "want to know how to disable a burglar alarm with aluminum foil?"

#2: A telemarketing old lady with a "warm voice and metronomic cadence".

#3: An NYC beggar who "walks up to a table, falls to his knees, interlaces his hands as if in prayer, and begs, at the top of his lungs, Please please please, money, please I need a dollar!"

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I thought this comment was a very clever joke, then I clicked the link and realised it’s an actual summary of the article.

Thanks for saving me seven minutes.

It's a summary of the title, but not of the article.

What more substance is there?

It's the most interesting article I've read in quite a long time.

Take the time to read it.

Same here. But I can’t oversee the irony. I was sold.

an intimate discussion of his life and how it was forever changed by being a telemarketer? It was actually a very interesting and well written read - an autobiography disguised as a sales advice article.

The message seems to be: sales is a soul-sucking job, a demoralizing exercise on psychopathic exploitation in which making people feel something (be it good or not) is the way into their wallets.

The message is also that consumerism is driven by demand creation - and that demand creation takes its toll on both the demander and the buyer.

The greatest minds of our generation are hard at work creating algorithms to give kids eating disorders, making the next iPhone 3mm thinner, and figuring out how to make a TV dinner that contains no actual food.

Our modern world is so incredible. I wish we could do some good things.

It's actually quite well written

The article was pretty much empty: someone trying to be edgy and making their word count. I didn’t enjoy reading the article and wish that for once I read the comments before the link.

I enjoyed the article very very much but I accidentally completed a BFA in creative writing in my youth so my taste in writing might be a bit off.

Knowing nothing about creative writing, I too enjoyed the article very much.

> "want to know how to disable a burglar alarm with aluminum foil?"

He just saw Beverly Hills Cop and wanted to sound impressive.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DupMnMsQXxM

#1 is true. All salespeople are fantastic storytellers. They got a secret, a charmed life, and they are willing to show how you too can be as successful and happy. Unfortunately everything they said was embellished or completely untrue.

Which one translates best into high ticket SaaS sales?

My vote is for #3 during the next closing talks with an enterprise customer.

Hire #2 for the first call, #1 to close, and #3 for contract renewals

Damn this is a wickedly awesome response.

Damn the #3 part was too accurate

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