Chase Hughes's overarching framework for diagnosing and planning persuasion in any interaction — sales, therapy, parenting, interrogation, jury persuasion, political leadership, cult recruitment. Persuasion is defined as "the action of causing a behavior to occur that would never have occurred otherwise." Hughes says the model took 22–23 years to build, developed while training intelligence operatives and elite teams under extreme conditions — positioned as practice-derived rather than academic (see Being Correct Is Not the Same as Being Persuasive).
Each axis is imagined as a bottle of juice/water a person starts a conversation with at some fill level; persuasion happens once enough bottles are nearly full.
Every influence technique pivots on raising one of these six axes; every method of reading body language or profiling behavior works by detecting where someone currently sits on them (see Body Language Reveals What Words Conceal).
Persuasion reliably occurs once any three of the six axes — not a fixed set — are raised to a high level; filling all six makes persuasion "essentially unlimited." This makes the model agnostic to which psychological route is used: a cult recruiter might fill connection + openness + expectancy, while an authority-driven interrogator fills focus + suggestibility + compliance.
Hughes analyzes the Milgram obedience experiment through the model: only focus, suggestibility, and compliance were engaged — via the presence of authority and the novelty of the situation (see The Five Authority Trip Wires) — while connection, openness, and expectancy were essentially untouched. That narrow combination was still enough to drive participants to believe they were shocking people to death. See Life Script vs. Ancestor Script for Hughes's explanation of why that combination overrode participants' moral compass.
Usable forward (planning a sales call, a jury trial) or backward (diagnosing a lost sale, evaluating an attorney's persuasion of a jury) by asking which of the six specific "bottles" got filled.