Ted Talk Four W12 P2

By using empathy and respect, many more attempts at persuasion will be successful. By addressing an issue using the morals of someone else, they will often times be persuaded far easier. Morals are something that the human brain is very protective over, making it very hard to change. While actions and mindsets can be altered, the core values dictating everything that a person does is quite difficult. However, using this can also make it easier than it would otherwise seem to get a point across to someone; if they see their own morals reflected in an issue, they’re far more likely to support it. Even a little rephrasing can help to reach the other side.

Using this strategy in tandem with the idea of connecting two issues together could help to gain more support to cause change. While siding with one issue while unwittingly helping the other is one thing, getting two issues worked on by the same audience to solve a big problem is even better. While these strategies can’t be expected to work on everyone, there’s always a chance that at least one could work on someone that would otherwise be unwilling to help at all. If anything, easing the tensions between political parties can always prove to be helpful, and having a different mindset doesn’t always make a person “bad”; letting people think what they want is okay, and the goal isn’t to get them to switch sides, it’s to put things into their perspective.