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The 5 Elements Of Persuasion (AI Prompt Included)

September 29, 2025


Heya, Dil here.

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There’s a quote I keep coming back to…one of the sharpest I’ve ever read on persuasion:

“People will do anything for those who encourage their dreams, justify their failures, allay their fears, confirm their suspicions, and help them throw rocks at their enemies.”

~ Blair Warren

It’s from a short read called The One Sentence Persuasion Course.

Highly recommend grabbing it. It'll take you 20 minutes to read and years to forget.

The reason this hits?

Because if your content taps even one of those emotional levers…it moves people.

And if it hits two or more?

It sticks.

It spreads.

It sells.

So here’s a prompt that helps you bake those levers right into your next 25 content ideas:

💬 The “5 Elements of Persuasion” Prompt

What it’s for: Generating content ideas that pull on emotional levers, so you stop sounding like everyone else, and start creating content your audience feels.

How to use it: Fill in your niche and audience. Then paste into ChatGPT. 

I'm a content creator in the [insert your niche] niche, and my target audience is [insert your target audience].

Please generate 25 content ideas/topics that align with Blair Warren’s 5 Elements of Persuasion:

- Encourage Their Dreams: Content that inspires and supports your audience’s aspirations.  
- Justify Their Failures: Empathize with their past mistakes and frame them as steps toward success.  
- Allay Their Fears: Address their anxieties through reassuring content.  
- Confirm Their Suspicions: Validate their doubts, making them feel understood and “in the know.”  
- Take On Their Opponents: Unite your audience against a common enemy or obstacle. This doesn’t have to be a person — it could be an item, a habit, etc.

Please do not give me headlines/titles. Just describe the topic ideas very briefly, in a bulleted list.

At the end of your response, please ask me whether I want you to elaborate on any of the ideas.

Try it…and find out which angle hits hardest for your audience.

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Until next time.

Dil