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How Do You Get More People To Pay Attention To You?
You ultimately really need other people to pay attention to you, because that can lead to increased opportunities at work, better leadership of your team, better romantic or social prospects, etc. No one ends up doing projects or having sex with people they didn’t at one point pay some attention to, right? So it seems like we should focus on the how of getting this attention, much like we should other topics such as “How To Get People To Listen To You” and “How To Gain Influence.” Thankfully, some dude named Ben Parr (a former editor at Mashable) went and wrote a book on the topic of getting others to pay attention to you, then wrote an article highlighting some of the key points.
Because every headline in the modern era needs to have a number in it somewhere, he broke this into seven ideas. They are:
- Automaticity
- Framing
- Disruption
- Reward
- Reputation
- Mystery
- Acknowledgement
Let’s unpack it. (And remember, attention spans are drastically reducing pretty much every year, so getting attention is even more of a premium skill.)
