Pitch Anything

The frame is like a picture of what you want the interaction to be about. And the most powerful thing about frames? There can be only one dominant frame during any interaction between two people.

When two frames come together, the stronger frame absorbs the weaker frame.

There is a fundamental disconnect between the way we pitch anything and the way it is received by our audience.
As a result, at the crucial moment, when it is most important to be convincing, nine out of ten times we are not. Our most important messages have a surprisingly low chance of getting through.
You need to understand why this disconnect occurs in order to overcome it, succeed, and profit.

populated by fewer than 1,000 people, who were probably outnumbered by the jackrabbits. Now, 115,000 people live here. Think about that. We are deciding in this room, 50 miles away from the site, what wil be done with 1,000 acres of land in the middle of a community