(December 6, 2012 at 11:52 pm)FallentoReason Wrote: Holy crap! It's so true the comparison Rhythm makes then! I was just thinking about my friend yesterday who has been in Amway for about two years now. He called me up one day to catch up over coffee and so that I could get his resumee off him (I told him we might have work where I'm at). The next thing you know, he's "preaching" up Amway and telling me how he sees so much potential in me. He told me about a successful engineer who retired at 25 thanks to Amway. This isn't even the first time he's tried this on me! Just like a religious person, there's those mechanisms within MLMs that trigger the person to "preach" about their "cult" ad infinitum even though (and he told me this) he's only breaking even financially. So in the face of crappy results there's something that keeps him wanting more of it...
I can see so many similarities between a believer of religion and believer of MLMs... it's crazy how the brain just gets chucked out the window every time.
Best advice I can give if you run into that situation again.
1. Do not break eye contact.
2. Back up - quickly!
3. Look around for a large, stout, stick.
4. ???
5. Profit!
