People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.
Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.
You don't accomplish a lot by changing people's opinions by shoving facts down their throat. I think you change people's opinions by opening your heart up and showing the parallels between you and another person. That's how people's ideas shift.
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.