#persuasion — Public Fediverse posts

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Research Shows Your Brain Is Being Hijacked by X and LinkedIn

https://www.inc.com/stephanie-davis/research-brain-twitter-x-linkedin-reddit-founder-advice/91402265

#LinkedIn #Twitter #persuasion

We're safe here from using these two scoundrels...

Research Shows Your Brain Is Being Hijacked by X and LinkedIn

https://www.inc.com/stephanie-davis/research-brain-twitter-x-linkedin-reddit-founder-advice/91402265

#LinkedIn #Twitter #persuasion

We're safe here from using these two scoundrels...

Research Shows Your Brain Is Being Hijacked by X and LinkedIn

https://www.inc.com/stephanie-davis/research-brain-twitter-x-linkedin-reddit-founder-advice/91402265

#LinkedIn #Twitter #persuasion

We're safe here from using these two scoundrels...

Research Shows Your Brain Is Being Hijacked by X and LinkedIn

https://www.inc.com/stephanie-davis/research-brain-twitter-x-linkedin-reddit-founder-advice/91402265

#LinkedIn #Twitter #persuasion

We're safe here from using these two scoundrels...

Research Shows Your Brain Is Being Hijacked by X and LinkedIn

https://www.inc.com/stephanie-davis/research-brain-twitter-x-linkedin-reddit-founder-advice/91402265

#LinkedIn #Twitter #persuasion

Review: Persuasion – One of Jane Austen’s Most Underrated Books. (Spoilers)

Last Christmas, one of the books I received was Jane Austen’s Persuasion, which, as the title says, is possibly one of her most underrated books. While we have all heard of Pride and Prejudice, and maybe some of her other stories such as Sense and Sensibility or Emma, most of us probably aren’t familiar with Persuasion, despite it being one of the most heart-wrenchingly written romances Jane Austen ever put to paper.

Set in Regency-era England, Persuasion follows Anne Elliot, the daughter of a wealthy aristocrat whose poor spending habits have landed the family deep in debt. In an attempt to get out of debt, the Elliot family is forced to rent out their estate to some wealthy tenants and move to their new home in Bath. However, the guy renting their estate isn’t just a random guy, but is actually Admiral Croft, who is married to the sister of Anne’s former suitor Captain Fredrick Wentworth, the man whom she was persuaded to break up with 8 years prior to the events of the book. Thus, Anne and Wentworth are forced to reconnect and confront their lingering feelings for each other through a series of misunderstandings.

With that description alone, it is understandable why Persuasion holds such a special place in the hearts of Jane Austen fans everywhere. Whereas most of Austen’s books center around young women falling in love for the first time, Persuasion focuses on an older heroine (Anne is 27) who has despaired of ever finding a husband and believes that Wentworth would never again want her after she rejected him. Thus, instead of the story necessarily focusing on finding a husband (though that’s a big part of it), it focuses more on forgiveness and the rekindling of the relationship between the two, and Anne’s rediscovery of hope and joy after being mired in despair for so long.

Besides that, Persuasion also feels different compared to some of Jane Austen’s other novels in the sense that Austen was in a similar situation to Anne. While her family wasn’t deep in debt and weren’t high-up aristocrats, Austen never married, despite having an attraction to a young man named Tom Lefroy (though the jury is out on whether this was a fling or if she actually liked him), being engaged to a guy named Harris Bigg-Wither (which she ended the morning after he proposed), and supposedly having a romance with a young clergyman in Bath who tragically died shortly after their infatuation began. Whether she actually loved any of these men is a topic of debate, but within Persuasion, it feels as though she wrote from personal experience. The pain that Anne feels at being single and losing her shot feels as though it came from Jane’s own sadness. Though heartbreak appears in several of Austen’s books (i.e. Sense and Sensibility), here, it feels deeper and more cutting, like Jane was writing about something closer to home.

Because of that, the end of the book feels so much more deserved. Yes, the heroines of other works like Sense and Sensibility who go through heartbreak also get endings that feel consistent with their journeys and are well-earned, but because Persuasion is largely about overcoming heartbreak and rediscovering love, the end is that much better. It’s more satisfying to know that Anne has become the person she used to be – hopeful, in love, and beautiful again – instead of despairing.

For the hopeless romantics, Persuasion is a book that expresses romantic longing better than many of Jane Austen’s other works.

Until next time,

M.J.

A quotation from Abraham Lincoln

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that a “drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.” So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great high road to his reason, and which, when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause really be a just one.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1843-02-22), Temperance Address, Washington Temperance Society, Second Presbyterian Church, Springfield, Illinois

More info about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/4516…

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Dear Friends of #afternoon tea, ​:anarchy:​

There I was yesterday (this is a true story), installing Manjaro ​:manjaro:​ on a Windows only computer. Had to turn off the #laptop, as my siblings had prepared a home made scone cream and compote tea for three 0 clock. I was to be part of this #birthday treat with #bone china #rose patterned teacups.

Oh boy! I laid back and thought of #England!

Meanwhile people made of sterner and more #empowering #mad #hatter #persuasion are using their breed of torture to:

- #Suggest the penalty for insurrection is electric #chair #plus lethal injection (just to be on the legal side of #safety)
- Everybody is safe inside a #bwank vault. 🏦
- #Make hay whilst the sun shines. ☀️

In other words. Be the person you are. #Except other peoples #karma. Enjoy your scone, #bird bath and #bee #garden.

Have a great day everyone. #Stay #focused on #change for the better. ❤️