503 - Want to Change Someone's Mind? Lead with Emotion
Modern Mentor
Macmillan Holdings, LLC
4.3 • 726 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2019
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Convincing people and changing their minds begins by meeting them emotionally. Then and only then, can you begin to promote your agenda.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Steveer Rodens. Welcome to the Get It Done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more. |
| 0:09.7 | Millennials rock. When I talk to my millennial friends, one of their common things is change, |
| 0:14.6 | and change for the better. Social change, political change, environmental change, and since |
| 0:20.4 | their college graduates, spare change. |
| 0:22.9 | After all, they have tons of student debt and are underemployed in the sole-sucking exploitation machine called the gig economy. |
| 0:29.8 | In their pursuit of changing the world, they're just like Thomas, |
| 0:33.4 | Europa's 16-year-old cybernetic son who has an IQ of 420. |
| 0:37.3 | He's the smartest person in the room. |
| 0:39.1 | Always. |
| 0:39.7 | He always has the right answer right away. |
| 0:42.3 | He and his high school robotics team are starting their own company to build autonomous surgical robotic teddy bears. |
| 0:48.6 | They envision a glorious future when the streets are full of scalpel wielding teddy bears marching forth to to remove |
| 0:56.5 | appendixes, I guess. |
| 0:59.1 | Thomas wants them to build in strong privacy controls, but the rest of the team is refusing. |
| 1:03.9 | They say it'll take too long and it'll be too expensive. |
| 1:06.3 | And besides, the first robotics championships don't grade the competitors on privacy. |
| 1:11.8 | Oh, Thomas groans, and he goes back to his bedroom to sulk, and he never persuades anyone of anything, even though he's right, because what he hasn't realized yet is that being right has nothing to do with being taken seriously. |
| 1:26.4 | Don't start by being right. If you want to be taken seriously, don't start by being right. |
| 1:28.3 | If you want to be taken seriously, don't start off trying to prove your right. |
| 1:31.7 | No one cares. |
| 1:32.7 | No, no really, no one cares. |
| 1:35.4 | When someone on the internet argues with you and tries to prove that they're right, do you care? |
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