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" There is only one trick to getting more. It is the easiest piece of advice in this entire magazine. It is so blazingly simple that I am going to take an extra sentence or two before I say what it is, only because it won&amp;#039;t seem like much of a payoff if I don&amp;#039;t. To get a little more, you have to give more. This does not mean tipping or glad-handing. It does not mean bribery. It doesn&amp;#039;t really involve money at all. If it were that easy, they&amp;#039;d just put a price list on faster service, window views, comps, long pours on the bourbon. You&amp;#039;d pay a little more for a little more, and we&amp;#039;d all go crazy with the folded-up bills. It&amp;#039;s really more about you. You have to commodify your attention and energy and recognize that value. And then you give it to the people who least expect it -- the guy behind the counter, the woman at the front desk. Look them up and down; read them. Then pause and make them see you. Your desires do not have to be at cross purposes with their capabilities. Announce what you want and show what you will give.  I hate the word giving. It has the connotative texture of pabulum. But in this, there is no substitute. You have to be willing to offer more of yourself to the human process. You have to ask questions, give compliments, treat the world of people who work for you, and with you, with some modicum of honor (which is far more than the foot traffic of the everyday allows). You have to see the person and open yourself to the possibility of being seen. There is no price tag. Show them you appreciate that. And when you stand up straight, announce what you want, and show what you are willing to give -- a little of your time, a measure of your good humor, a moment of real attention. That directness is accepted as style, that clarity as power. That&amp;#039;s when the giving becomes the getting. Wasn&amp;#039;t that what you were after? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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