The key to getting attention is to talk to someone about something they are interested in -- and everyone is interested in themselves.
Reading the email, it really felt as if it was from someone who already knew the OP well. If I'd read something like that about myself I would have question my first impression that this was a stranger -- surely we'd had coffee or something at some point? Met at a conference?
In the same way that mimicking body language influences someone, the email was couched in all kinds of casual point about "this is how we are alike".
Reading the email, it really felt as if it was from someone who already knew the OP well. If I'd read something like that about myself I would have question my first impression that this was a stranger -- surely we'd had coffee or something at some point? Met at a conference?
In the same way that mimicking body language influences someone, the email was couched in all kinds of casual point about "this is how we are alike".
Hit them right in the tribal monkey brain.