How To AVOID Sounding Like A Jerk #psychology #jerk #communicationskills

I'm in Whole Foods the other day. So I order up the salmon, and a guy weighs it and packages it, and I don't want the salmon that he just went through all this trouble of making for me. What's his reaction? This guy's a jerk. So what do I do? I call it out in advance. Look, I know I'm gonna seem like a complete jerk. I don't want that salmon anymore, I want this salmon. He goes, oh, okay, and he just pops it out of the bag, throws the bag away, doesn't bat an eye, quickly swaps me out, and I'm on my way. If I need you to comply right now, and I cannot waste time on your negative pushback, I need to go as deep as possible with a label for me so that you don't go there. Instead of me saying, look, I don't want this to sound disrespectful, I say, it's gonna sound disrespectful, and I will have deactivated that negative reaction. It works every time.