Thursday, August 23, 2007

Re: [MLM Survivors Club] Can I say it without vomiting??

Mick, why do you keep responding to everything I respond to at close to
the same time? ;-)

On Thursday 23 August 2007, mick wenlock wrote:
> HI Jenn (AND PIPER OF COURSE !)
>
> I think you are doing something which is fairly common among cult
> survivors. I use the word "cult" deliberately of course.
>
> You say that you are the salesperson you are today because of "thing
> which must not be named" - the trouble is, how do you know that to be
> the case?

"thing which must not be named" Are you talk about Lord Voldemort? ;-)

Yes, though, this is a good point. It's as if there's a need to
say, "It's not all bad." While it's true that we can pick up something
from most experiences that will help us, I do wonder if the need to
claim such an experience provided some of these other things could be a
way of not dealing with all the problems it has caused in one's life
and coming to terms with all of that.

> Could it be that you are the salesperson you are today because you
> are a strong individual who could learn the techniques of
> salesmanship? Is it not because of who you are and what you are
> capable of that you have become as good as you are?
>
> I offer this as proof - if Quixtar/Amway?AMO were responsible for
> your ability now - wouldn't that mean you would be an exploitive
> manipulator as well as being a good salesperson?

I've learned good sales tactics. What Quackstar uses is not really good
tactics. I'd have to go with Mick on this. If you were to stick with
all their sales tactics, you'd be the kind of annoying sales person
most of us run from when we're buying a car.

> This is, it strikes me, a case of the "post hoc, ergo propter hoc"
> fallacy. Which is a fancy way of saying that it is mistake to assume
> that just because one thing preceded another that it must be the
> cause of it.
>
> I suspect that you have become a good salesperson in spite of
> Quixtar, not because of it.

Agreed. 100%.

Hal

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