These days, I am feeling the need of skill of convincing others. We had 2-3 discussions in which I was unable to express my arguments clearly. I think that the art of convincing is one of the greatest human skill. As there are different people with different perspectives and different levels of understanding and knowledge, most of the discussions become subjective. It becomes a battleground in which everyone considers his/her own views supreme. Then, there is general tendency of deviating from topic and sticking at personal attitudes and feelings. In these conditions, one who is able to streamline all the views with the topic and make a general conclusion based on assumptions of different views and brings out the real point left for discussion is called the winner.
It requires very deep understanding of the topic itself as well as of the different perspectives by which people approach the issue. The arguments when become subjective can only be offset by facts and past cases.
2 comments:
Convincing a highly priced skill (All marketers are lierers it is just that they are blessed with this skill) and eveyone is in search for this "holy grail", apart from the tenets that you mentioned i believe that catching the weakness of other person's argument is equally important, because even if you have no facts in that case too, making the other person's argument as the Armour you can march ahead in discussions. What do you say??
weakening other's argument is also important but not sufficient..we should have our own views as well
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