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How do we get someone to do what we want them to do?

We can bully them, make them fear us

Threaten what we will do if they don't comply

We can beg, cajole and plead with them

We can reason with them if they have the kind of mind that listens 

To reason, responds to information

We can figure out how to outrank them so our orders

Carry some weight

We can hint, imply, gently suggest, nudge

Hoping they catch on

Motivation with rewards works sometimes

Either material rewards or lavish praise when they do what we want

We can nag nag nag until the nagging wears them down

We can, in a pinch, completely ignore or work around what they do or don't do

This way their choices have no effect on you

You can laser focus on your own behavior, your own well being

Demeanor and goals

Thus creating a completely different route that bypasses them

And their constellation of catastrophes altogether

On this alternate route you can have a nice day, a peaceful day

Your mind free of trying to bend another to your will

You travel down the right path with the right companions 

Where something good might await just around the next bend 

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