No, not the same thing at all. Rapport INVOLVES comfort, but comfort doesn't necissarily involve rapport.

Comfort is when someone feels safe being around you and doesn't worry that you're going to do anything they won't like.

Rapport is when you have a connection between the two of you, so that your actions and emotions have an impact upon hers. When in deep rapport, you can make a shift in your body language and you'll notice that she'll follow and do the same thing.

This has nothing to do with Mystery Method, this is pure psychology that has been discussed in that method. It is dealt with heavily in NLP and that's where Mystery got it from.

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yeah a rough NLP perspective on rapport is that when two people have rapport they share things in common or my have same interests and tastes and generally they mimic each others persona, body language, etc.

Rough. It's not so much about having things in common, as it is about ACKNOWLEDGING that you have the things in common with each other. Just having similar interests isn't enough, you need to communicate that you share things and both recognize that.

Tons of people that have the same interests fight a ton, because they don't recognize the common ground and don't realise that often when they are arguing, they are fighting the same point, juse worded differently. Then they realise that and they become friends. That's the difference.

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"The 'Brick Walls' are there to allow you to prove how badly you want something!" ~ Randy Pausch

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