Eveninnnngggg! For today’s blog I think I want to compare it to a previous relationship I was in. I was in a relationship where the guy did not really appreciate me, we started dating while we were in high school and I thought It was okay at the time. Once I left high school and came to Baylor I began to realize I was not being treated right and that I deserved better. Long story short, when I got to Baylor I had time to think about the way I want to be treated and the guy I want in my life. I realized it wasn’t him and I broke up with him. Years later he has been calling me an emphasizing the fact that he messed up and pleading for other chances.

In the chapter Cialdini goes in depth about scarcity and he has many quotes that emphasize the situation that I lived through. Griffin et. al. defines scarcity principle as, “that opportunities seem more valuable to us when their availability is limited,” (238). Further down that page, Griffin et. al. states, “people seem to be more motivated by the thought of losing something than by the thought of gaining something of equal value,” (238). On the next page, Griffin et. al. ends with, “if it is rare or becoming rare, it is more valuable,” (239).

The quotes in the book made me think of this situation immediately. The first quote directly correlated to the guy I was dating because as soon as I broke up with him he was calling trying to change and fix things that I had been telling him to change. It was almost comedy, we had been dating for two years and he started fixing things that I told him to fix way at the beginning of our relationship. In the second quote, it reminded me of him because when I was threatening him that I was going to leave him he was getting scared and trying to act perfect. Finally, in the last quote it just reiterates the second quote!

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