#persuade

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them.

Truly powerful people have great humility. They do not try to impress, they do not try to be influential. They simply are. People are magnetically drawn to them. They are most often very silent and focused, aware of their core selves. They never persuade, nor do they use manipulation or aggressiveness to get their way. They listen. If there is anything they can offer to assist you, they offer it; if not, they are silent.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

Satan has only a persuading sleight, not an enforcing might.