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Nietzsche said that the best way to enrage people is to force them to change their mind about you.
You have to spend many hours in Russian kitchens drinking tea or vodka before you are trusted, and sometimes you can feel eyes on you as someone makes up his mind about you.
At the start of "Dublinesque," the latest novel by Enrique Vila-Matas (translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean and Rosalind Harvey; New Directions), Riba, an… Nietzsche said that the best way to enrage people is to force them to change their mind about you.
"But you changed my mind about you".
The goal is not to change anyone else's mind about you.
It was, of course, also a way of ensuring that, if God ever changed His mind about you, you too would have drawing rooms to sit in and people to tell your story to.
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It appears that people really do make up their minds about you in just a few seconds.
Changing oneself is easy, according to Sarza, but it is more difficult to change the perception of people who have already made up their minds about you.
If you change your mind about what you want halfway through a meeting, your employees may not take you seriously, or they might be frustrated.
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