Forty Seconds to success First impressions count Rapport Archive Business Forty Seconds to success First impressions count Rapport Issue 9 Publication Date September 28th 2007 Authors Julie Rennie We are all bombarded by so much sensory input each second that our unconscious mind protects us from overload by sorting, deleting, and generalising the incoming information. And then of course we respond in accordance with our individual past experiences, memories, associations and learnings. It’s no wonder that two people at the same party can have vastly differing experiences of and reactions to the same event!... Business To access the rest of this article, you need to use 1 credit ANLP members get complimentary credits that can be used for purchasing from the Rapport archive - a collection of more than a 1000 high quality articles written by some of the leading voices in the field of NLP. Non-members can buy Rapport credits via the ANLP store. JOIN ANLP BUY RAPPORT CREDITS If you have already purchased this article, you can log in to access it