Lazaris has offered us a bounty of wonderful techniques. This is an especially fun one that Jach describes in response to a question at an Online Conference. Q: Whats the spitball technique? Have been wondering about this question for years. Jach: Hi there, ... .Oh yes ... the spitball technique. [vbg] Since you have been wondering for years, I fear my answer will be disappointing. But the technique is amazingly powerful, so its impact need not be disappointing. [g] When you are searching for yes-no answers, you can use the spitball technique. You take two tiny pieces of paper ... pieces no bigger than what you would use to create a spitball. You put the letter “Y” on one and the letter “N” on the other. Then you wad the little pieces up as if you were going to make a spitball. But you dont. I mean, you dont actually put it in your mouth. [s] Now with these two wads of paper ... these still dry wads of paper ... you cup them together in your hands and shake your hands as if you were shaking dice. As you do this, you think of your question, you feel your question, you close your eyes to focus on your question, and you ask your question, as you toss the wads of paper that are the size of spitballs. Lazaris suggested that the one that lands the closest to you is the answer. Some people like to use the farthest away one as the answer. Thats okay if you have determined that ahead of time and as long as you are consistent. Lazaris suggests that you toss the spitballs once per question. If you toss them a second time for the same question, you arent really tossing them for the same question. Now you are tossing them to test the first answer. However, I do know that there are those who have set up the parameters in advance that they would toss the wads or spitballs three times with a two-out-of-three result. Again, if that parameter is really important and you set it up in advance and are consistent ... it can work just fine. As Lazaris often pointed out with a wry smile ... dont shift two-out-of-three to three-out-of-five midstream. Or if you do, then arent you really answering your own question, anyway. That is the spitball technique. [s]
Posted on: Tue, 06 May 2014 16:16:30 +0000