Fractal Productivity / Influencing / NLP Patterns
31 terms across 8 themes — every definition in the Atlas sourced from this manual, with executive examples and counter-moves.
Pairing a sensory cue with a desired internal state until the cue reliably evokes the state.
Reading micro-shifts in another person's state — breath, color, micro-expression — in real time.
Moving between abstraction levels — chunking up finds shared values, chunking down finds specifics.
Firing two opposing emotional anchors simultaneously to neutralize a negative state.
Alignment between verbal message, tone, posture, and underlying intent. Audiences detect the gap.
The same message in a different setting produces a different result.
Influence tactics weaponized — manipulation, coercion, exploitation of trust.
Time is fixed; energy is not. Manage the renewable.
Eye movements that loosely correlate with which representational system is active — visual, auditory, kinesthetic.
Self-similar productivity patterns that repeat at every scale — day, week, quarter, year, life.
Hard tactics use pressure and authority; soft tactics use rapport, reasoning, and inspiration.
Deliberately shaping how others perceive you — through behavior, signal, and context.
Persuasion power is a function of perceived expertise × perceived trustworthiness.
Creative work needs blocks of hours; managerial work runs on 30-minute slices. They destroy each other when mixed.
A set of language patterns that recover missing information from vague statements — deletions, distortions, generalizations.
Deliberately vague language patterns that bypass conscious resistance — the inverse of the meta-model.
Match the target's current state, then gradually shift it toward the desired one.
20% of your activity produces 80% of the result. Find it. Cut the rest.
An assumption embedded in a sentence's structure — accepted by default unless actively challenged.
Subtly mirroring posture, breath, and language until the other person feels understood.
Changing the meaning of an experience by changing the frame around it.
People preferentially process experience visually, auditorily, or kinesthetically. Match the channel; match the mind.
Every interaction is bidirectional persuasion — you're never just the seller or the buyer.
Time spent improving the tool is not time stolen from the work.
A negotiation between conscious goals and the unconscious 'positive intention' behind a problem behavior.
The fine-grained sensory qualities of internal experience — brightness, distance, volume, location.
The conditions under which a target accepts an influence attempt without scrutiny.
Rapidly replacing an unwanted internal image with a desired one to disrupt a habitual response.
Each day: one big thing, three medium things, five small things. Nothing else counts.
Pre-allocate every hour to a category before the day starts.
A goal stated in positive, sensory-specific, self-initiated, contextualized, and ecologically sound terms.