How Do You Change Someone’s Mind?
Most smart people make the common mistake of believing that just Huge Lots of more time bestowing your superior logic and reason upon your unwashed interlocutor will do the trick.
Never happens. Because, it’s counter-productive.
In fact, the more you argue reason and logic, the more they become entrenched, so do you, and it’s no longer about any sort of honest evaluation of data, but who wins. You both enter the realm of competing intransigence.
When an irresistible force meets an immovable object.
There are three basic and fundamental requirements to live as a human, and messing with two of them are foreclosed to you in general; and surely, if it’s someone anywhere in the world on the internet. For many years I have employed a method of changing minds that most people find hugely distasteful, but it nonetheless has the power of producing a rather permanent change of mind, and not just an ass-licking one.
Specifically, it begins at about 5.00 minutes into this video.
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Richard, that is a very thought provoking post. Thanks for taking the time to do it. Cheers