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Jedi Mind Trick


I remember when I was a kid watching Eddie Murphy Raw. there was a bit that he did where he told a joke about doing the Jedi mind trick with Mr. T. It sort of went like this, "
So I figured if he came up to me, I could use the Jedi mind trick on him. Mr. T walk up and go, 'I heard you did some jokes about me.' 'No, you didn't.' 'Maybe I didn't.' 'I'm gonna go beat up the fool that told me them lies.'" 
There are times at my current client where I think it's being done to me. 
Decisions are made or I've been told they've been made where I have zero memory of them ever being made. It's at that point that I begin to wonder if I really agreed to something or if I made a comment in passing that could have been interpreted as me understanding the decision or agreeing to it.
But then I talk to other people and they are having the same type of episode.
It's such a weird (and disturbing) feeling.
All I know is that with Evernote, my journal, and any other type of time capturing device- being Jedi mind tricked should not be happening. 
I've learned that being successful in a large environment means saying something that sounds like a decision, but is really a definitive indecision. How to master that... they don't teach that in business school. 

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