My new thing has been incorporating the 1-10 scale in daily conversation. I’ve found it very helpful in quantifying how strongly someone feels about an aimless statement they make. For example if someone tells me:
I love western grip handjobs
I will then ask them- on a scale of 1-10, how much do you enjoy Western Grip handjobs. Usually I will get a short pause followed by an answer. I know that if he answers with a 9 or 10, that he sincerely enjoys the western grip. I consider a 7 or an 8 as better than average and any statement under a 6, is a weak statement. To get a better idea of how enjoyable he finds it, I will ask him how much he enjoys a conventional handjob (using the same metric, of course). Then, I simply compare the two answers to get a good idea of how strongly he actually felt about his original statement.
With so many people making blanket statements, it’s hard to get a good idea of how strongly they actually feel about something unless they can assign a number to it. The 1-10 scale helps in practically every facet of life. I ask my boss, on a scale of 1-10, how important is this spreadsheet. This helps me understand just how important something is. If I ask a girl how much she likes pizza on a 1-10 scale, I can get an idea of where to take her for dinner.
But there are some obstacles in the 1-10 scale. Most of the time, you will be dealing with someone who thinks they are ultra clever and will say something like, 27. or if they hate something they will throw out a negative number, or possibly a zero. This really agitates me. I said 1-10, that means the mother fucking scale starts at 1 and ends at the number 10. I didnt say from negative infinity to infinity, you can’t just throw in any number you feel like throwing in there. By using the 1-10 scale I have purposely limited someone’s options for my personal understanding so if they think that answering with any other number will help me, they are wrong. It doesn’t. Either play by MY rules or don’t play at all. Its not that complicated.
Another thing, something that absolutely gets me is when they don’t answer using a whole number. When they say “Eh, probably a seven and a half”. How can you possibly calculate that you like something seven and a half out of ten? Nobody is that precise in their feelings of something. You cant possibly say- I liked that book 7.346 out of 10. IT’S IMPOSSIBLE. When someone answers with some bullshit like that I totally disregard anything they ever say after that because obviously, they are out of touch with reality.
I encourage you to use this scale from here on out. I’ve already gained an unmeasurable amount of insight from it. Seriously.



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