Persuasion – what is it? According to the dictionary:
1. When you persuade, you get somebody to do something – to succeed in convincing somebody to do something especially by reasoning, pleading, and coaxing.
2. convince somebody of something – to make somebody believe by giving good reasons for doing so.
If I had my pick of which one of those two definitions would have appeared as #1, I would have chosen the second one. But I don’t write dictionaries so its not my choice.
“To make somebody believe by giving good reasons for doing so,” seems like a logical way to for people to respond to each other. If logic is in place, and good reasons are presented well, that’s half the battle in any discussion.
More to come on this topic in future posts.
Filed under: Communication, September 2007
