Flickr/Apps for Europe Unless you're striving for a level of zen on par with the most dutiful Buddhist monks, there's pretty much always something that you want.

You might want a raise from your employer, a partnership with a new business that opened up, or maybe just some extra dipping sauce for your chicken fingers without paying that 50-cent additional charge.

You can get many things in life by simply convincing someone else to give them to you — but they aren't going to give it to you without a good reason.

Your greatest tool to get what you want is through the psychology of persuasion.

Here are seven persuasive tactics you can use to get what you want from anyone.