Subtly Persuasive

Suggestions linger, if not haunt; while assertions are discarded before they are even discredited. The ability to catch someone's attention while looking the other way and leave them wondering whether or not you were flirting—to the extent that they then initiate conversation with you to find resolution—is the goal of persuasive communication.
I do not try to overcome your resistance. I arouse your curiosity. I do not try to reassure your reluctance. I enhance my own mystery. I respect and therefore tap into your own desire to learn and need to change, not my own need for you to agree with or be like me.
It's a matter of on whom I choose to focus. If I am doing something for myself, then I need to compel, force, command, assert, dominate my way upon you, and the risk of your rejection, difference or indifference cannot be permitted. If you are my focus, then I tickle, poke at, accentuate your own learning edges so that you want to take action and pursue new possibilities.