RE: "I've tried it" doesn't instill interest

Bill Tozier 
> Recall that we're chatting about the problem: Why do people who are 
> presented with evidence of a better way of doing their work 
> choose not 
> to do their work that way?
> 
> Modern economic theory [caveat lector] would argue that people 
> adopt/buy into something when the perceived benefits outweigh the 
> perceived costs, factoring in their risk aversion. The approach of 
> explaining, in exhaustive detail, how many vast benefits XP 
> will bring 
> to somebody sometimes doesn't work. Is it because (as Ron 
> ((if I parsed 
> the thread right)) pointed out) the listener doesn't *get* what the 
> seller is trying to communicate, or that the seller is 
> perceived as an 
> a[5|6]e? Or is it perhaps that the seller has not addressed some 
> aspects of cost of change that the listener sees?

Or it could be that they're up to their a1s in alligators and have forgotten
that their goal was to drain the swamp.

 - George

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