Leuty Parker

Tag: #podcasts

  • My best medicine…

    It’s clear I have a vested interest in the medical friend, due to my tumultuous relationship with chronic health conditions; 1. T1 diabetes and 2. Surviving a brain injury.

    However, crossing this with commercial entèrtainment, I got interested in this podcast;

    https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/best-medicine/id1709100207?i=1000636742992

    Which revolves around medicine, in a very subjective way. Less “formal” medicine, like paracetamol, more an example of something that makes the donator feel better, but always medicine related.

    This episode up there, I’ll use as an example;

    “Gardening”, believe it or not, is where transplant surgery evolved from. They were initially skin grafts. For those who aren’t in the know what that is, some skin is removed from the forehead, it makes a kind of flap, and that skin is used to cover injuries elsewhere.

    Even further, it has advanced so much that new body parts can be made by mounting it around wax (only for aesthetic reasons, not functional one).

    This was inspired by plant grafting. In a literal way, when wounded (say a branch is cut off) the plant will die regrow it.

    “The agriculture of the body”

  • Influence

    It has certainly evolved with the career of being an “influencer”. It’s certainly understanding how the culture & technological advances affect trends.

    So what is persuasion? I’ll give you some examples which have been experimented scientifically.

    It really depends on the geographic culture on how you act to the subject. That can be in what manner you speak to them (pronouncing particular things in a certain way) or the content of conversation or everything down to manners.

    A way to influence is to tap into the fear of loss. That can be something like “we only have 2 left” or “a woman across the country is wanting more than you” -competition- or wanting what you can’t have -scarcity- sale price or sell by date.

    There’s forms of influence, like if someone gives you a gift, you feel like you owe them something in return where it’s a gift, a favour or an invitation. We dismiss or have nasty names for those who don’t show obligation, like “mooches”.

    It’s not what we receive, it’s that we re.

    In financial terms, most of the things we are persuaded to do (or buy particularly) is not about the monetary value of the item. It’s about how awful, psychologically, to dismiss it.