The Four Stages of Trying Something New: Cynical → Skeptical → Approving → Cult-like

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When confronted with genuinely effective methods, opinion often follows a predictable arc: initial cynicism, then skepticism, then approval, then emphatic endorsement, finally becoming evangelical. The progression reveals that direct experience is far more persuasive than any argument could ever be. You don't convert skeptics by talking — you convert them by making them feel the result firsthand.

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