Motivational: Make Ideas Your (& Their) Own: Persuade Yourself and Others

Make Ideas Your (& Their) Own: Persuade Yourself and Others

Written by Ronnie Nijmeh

Have you ever watched a TV program where repparttar

supporting actor has a grand idea only to find repparttar 123262

lead actor immediately repeat repparttar 123263

idea as if it were his own?

You've probably experienced it yourself! It goes something like:

Friend: "I've got it! We should go to Sparky's for dinner!" You: "Hmm... how about we go to Sparky's for dinner?" Friend: "That's what I just said!" You: "No you didn't!"

Well, there's a reason for those common conversations. It's because repparttar 123264 best ideas are ones we personally created and we often don't hear other ideas unless it comes from our own mouth.

We closely identify with and remember ideas and strategies that we come up with on our own. It's just repparttar 123265 inherent way our brain works.

That's why it's so difficult to understand something that you just "copy" down or something that someone else has told you about in a meeting or lecture.

Persuading People with Ideas: Making Ideas Their Own

In persuasion, it's vital to make your idea sound as if it came from repparttar 123266 other party. That's repparttar 123267 only way they'll understand and accept your stance.

To show this, let's go back to you and your friend:

Friend: "I've got it! We should go to Sparky's for dinner!" You: "Hmm... how about we go to Sparky's for dinner?" Friend: "That's a great idea, I like it!" You: "Thanks! Let's go and eat!"

So now we notice that you've reached consensus with your friend. He actually made it sound as though repparttar 123268 restaurant selection was your idea, not his. This might make you feel more confident and in control. Besides, your friend got what he wanted because you were seemingly persuaded in repparttar 123269 first place.

Power Of "WHY"

Written by Ronnie Nijmeh

The most powerful question one can ask is simple, short, and effective. “Why?” is probably one of repparttar

most commonly heard questions and, not only one of repparttar 123261

most difficult to answer, but also repparttar 123262

most difficult to satisfy. We like to call "Why?" a helper question. "Why" is a question that can help steer repparttar 123263

conversation into your critical path and towards repparttar 123264

answer that you're seeking.

When one asks “why” they are tapping into their curiosity, and we all know that our curiosity is extremely difficult to satisfy with a single, one-worded answer. Why? And why is “why” such a powerful word?

The Thirst for Knowledge and Understanding Asking open-ended “why” questions can begin a tricky situation that starts with one “why” and can snowball into a “why” after “why” fiasco (just think of repparttar 123265 hilarity of a child asking their parents one “why” after another!). If you don’t satisfy repparttar 123266 knowledge seeker’s original thirst, another why ensues and it snowballs from there.

CHALLENGE: As a seeker of knowledge (which I wholly believe that we all are, especially repparttar 123267 team of ACQYR readers) we have to ask repparttar 123268 tough questions, and never lose our thirst for knowledge and understanding. Curiosity is what drives us to succeed and further develop our craving for knowledge. We must never lose our curiosity and our drive.

Everything is a Why…

You probably read repparttar 123269 title and thought, “huh?” Well, think for a minute about what it means. Almost every question one can ask can be formed as a “why” statement and every single “why” question is an open-ended question. “What are you feeling right now?” yields a closed-ended answer (i.e. “Fine.”). Replaced by a “why”, yields a more effective result: “Why are you feeling repparttar 123270 way you do?” produces a thought-out answer that better provides a level of understanding of repparttar 123271 overall situation. You can’t get a one-word answer with a “why,” and if you do, your thirst for clarity and knowledge isn’t satisfied. If it isn’t satisfied, it is our personal duty to continue (within reason of course) to seek out answers.

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