Convincing a person is really hard

it depends on the situation and also on the communication skills. i would say the more learned you are about a topic , your knowledge would have more say. it is always difficult to prove someone wrong especially adults. so correct usage of words also plays an important role. one more example would be to show some example of real life situation which appeals to the audience, you would be heard to and agreed upon as well. Be positive even if you are not convinced...people tend to note your expression as well. try not to enter an argument. any argument starts with a simple conversation or as talk on a general matter. try to get thing right during that phase itself. Arguments can never be won immediately. It would take time.

I am not good with convincing other people but it depends on the topic. If I am not well versed or not an authority on a certain topic, I opted to be silent and just listened to the conversation. But If I know it well and I tried it myself, and sharing may do good on them, then I'll go ahead and talked. With regards to arguing, for people who is not open minded, it is better to be silent. There would be no enough words that could satisfy them.

Not as hard as you think. It is easier to convince some people than it is other people, it just all depends on the person that you are trying to convince. There are some people that you can convince without any problems, but then there are some people who need much more convincing than others. Sometimes, it is easy to convince me, but more often than not, it is not that easy to convince me.

If you can always provide proof and evidences, that would be easier to convinced a person. However, there are people who are really hard to convinced, no matter how many proofs you will ever present on them. Each of us has our own opinion, evidences are not always proof to prove that we are saying the truth. Same thing inside the court room - not every evidence is accepted by the prosecutor.

I really don't bother convincing anyone of anything because if someone truly believes in some argument, it would be a waste of breath. All I can do is present my argument and my reasoning. Then they can really take with it was they wish or just decide to disregard it, no matter how much back up I had. In the end, it doesn't matter. It really doesn't matter what people think to be true, to me, there opinion is going to be there opinion. Debating with people is something that can be interesting but can also be headache inducing, when there are people who just will not back down, even if evidence smacks them in the face. You cannot convince anyone of anything, all you can do is offer what you can think and they either think that your point has value or just smugly disregard it.

There are times that I want to argue with something but most of the time I lose. Many of the listeners believe in the other person and only few who believes in me. But most the time, someone will talk about it to us like our teachers and they realize that I'm correct. I'm just not good in making a debate. I hope I can improve it and make them believe in me.

I know how you feel. I feel that way with some of the topics being presented here in MyLot. Seems like that there are people who cannot accept our responses and comments and feel the need to rant at it and refuse to just accept that there isn't only one thought. I mean, you ask a question, normally people will give their views, but if you are not willing to accept their views and assume that they're "closed minded" then perhaps it's you who is close-minded, right? Anyhow, I guess that's the beauty of discussion sites, you'll be exposed to different personalities and different point-of-views of which you would not agree at all most of the times. But the beauty in it is the fact that you'll learn to appreciate that people are different and thoughts will be varied. Have a great MyLot experience ahead!

I don't know when evidences are insufficient his idea is wrong. Maybe he's finding it difficult to express that is in his mind. Like I faced it. Like there was a debate, computers boon or curse? Well I was on the boon side. At the opposite, they were arguing about leaving computers and going back to old age. Well everybody knows such an argument is stupid even they would. But I found it difficult to express what they said was a stupid thing. Well it looks easy but I'm bad in talking open.