The Lone Penguin

Persuasion

human beings arent entirely irrational

I use persuasion on a professional level. There's like 4 different levels

Amateur, Professional, Commerical, and Master PErsuader

feelings are sure but dealing with them isn't necessarily

*typos

We like to think humans are rational about 90 percent of the time and like 10 percent of the time we get irrational

The truth is it's the opposite

We're irrational 90 percent of the time, and we're rational about 10 percent about things that don't really matter or have no emotional baggage to them

Like, you'll be rational about doing your taxes

ill rationally vote for someone based off of my irrational normative values

But you won't be rational about picking your favorite player or picking your career or your wife or literally anything that will matter to you

for example if they support socialism

i vote them

its rational but its rooted in feelings

or normative systems

And that's fine.

But the trap is thinking you're the only logical person....and it's every one else whos irrational

Which is really what causes so much division. We think the other side is full of idiots and our side is generally pretty okay

very few people think that

The Red Team Blue Team phenomenah is one of the most powerful

most people are aware that they are irrational to a degree

Once you belong to a tribe.....oof. forget about it

I wish that were true man. I really o

do*

I mean obviously not many people think they're infallible

I agree with that

it's that they think they're rational 90 percent of the time and irrational 10 percent of the time

Unless you realize that the opposite is true....

Here's the really crazy part, ready?

Unless you realize that humans are irrational almost all of the time....you'll never ever be persuasive

That's like....step one

fair enough, but in the end it depends on the context

you can be persuasive on the merit of how logical you are such as constructing an argument that is sound

maybe not in face to face interactions

Nope, facts never persuade anyone

Because everyone has their own facts

If you convince someone though a debate or something like that....it's because you did something else to convicne them

Like, you were more well spoken, or your tie was red and your opponent had a bowtie

Literally