Pathos

But then you've got words like pathos, which a lot of them come from rhetoric and talk of emotions and stuff.

And pathos is obviously one of those.

Pathos is just ancient Greek for feeling or suffering.

So something pathetic is something that inspires feeling pain.

maybe feelings of pity, which is how the sort of meaning has narrowed in English.

It's called symphilism.

But as you've got sympathy, which is, you know, together feeling.

Pathos.

It's just, it's just-

Pathos and comedy.

Yeah.

Odd bedfellows perhaps, but the, the cornerstone of good Corey acting, I feel.

Because it, it's through a story and it's memorable, and there's emotion.

Uh, the laws of influence are ethos, pathos, logos.

Ethos is, is this person credible? Pathos is their emotion.

Um, and then last one, ethos is, is this credible? So pathos is credibility.

Uh, no, hold on.

Ethos, pathos.

Ethos is credibility.

Pathos is emotion.

Okay, so I pulled the Patreon thread.

I said, who are your underrated players? Make a real case based off stats, film, logic, no pathos.

Oh, I showed that no pathos, the weakest appeal to my fiance, and she did not laugh at all.

I was like, damn, I thought it was

funny.

Sorry.

That's how the pathos people be.

I guess.

They're just pathological emotions.

Funny how pathological has the r- word pathos as its root, right? Pathos actually refers, in the Greek rhetorical style, to emotional appeal, but it also refers much more specifically to appeals to things like sympathy, pity, compassion, and so on.

It's more in this...

It's not entirely, but it's more in the, the r- domain of negative emotions.

W- what is it? Logos, um-

... is for, for reason.

Pathos is emotion.

Emotions, yeah.

And-

Nothing wrong with that, but it's only one of the critical components.

Pathos is around how are you empathetically connecting with people.

This is where you've heard expressions such as Brian Tracy sharing how, you know, sales is a transference of enthusiasm.

Whatever energy you bring to the sales call, how you're empathizing with the person, how you're connecting with them goes way beyond any of the logic.

Now, the Greek philosopher Aristotle said, in order for people to be fully persuaded, they need logos, pathos, and ethos, all three of them.

Now, logos is logic, your facts, your data, your case for why something is true.

Pathos is emotion.

the appeal that makes someone actually feel something.

Ethos is credibility, who you are and why they should trust you at all.