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Flakes are an invisible but significant source of rejection. The percentage of numbers that flake for most guys is high, in some cases, as high as 90%. This adds up to a lot of missed opportunities. Fortunately, there are effective strategies to reduce your flake-rate dramatically without requiring much effort on your part. Using the following techniques can help you avoid what otherwise could be an endless source of frustration. Strategy 1: The Power of Verbal Confirmation In 1989 Angela Lipsitz and her colleagues made an interesting finding about the power of verbal confirmation. They wanted to see what would happen when they ended their blood drive reminder calls with, “We’ll count on seeing you then, okay?” After saying this, they waited for a verbal confirmation. What they found was impressive, to say the least. The simple maneuver of allowing people to verbally confirm they would come to the blood drive increased response rates from 62 to 81 percent. Whene...

Pages: 464 Pages Genre: Horror Date Started: April 14th, 2017 Date Finished: April 18th, 2017 Goodreads Rating: 3.61 “The red van rolls past…humming and glinting.…Things are happening fast now, although no one on Poplar Street realizes it yet.” It’s a gorgeous midsummer afternoon along Poplar Street in the peaceful suburbia of Wentwort, Ohio, where life is as pleasant as you ever dreamed it could be. But that’s all about to end in blaze of gunfire and sudden violence, forever shattering the tranquility and the good times here. For the physical makeup of Poplar Street itself is now being transformed into a surreal landscape straight out of the active imagination of the innocent and vulnerable Seth Garin—an autistic boy who’s been exposed to and possessed by a horrific, otherworldly force of evil, one with sadistic and murderous intent and who is willing to use whatever means necessary to grow ever stronger. Oh Stephen King, I truly have a love-hate relationship wit...