From this article, "motivational interviewing" is supported by actual research.
That's a nice change.
My people on the left keep doing the "fat shaming" equivalent (scolding) for politics and policy. Stubbornly wrong.
Most of the advice about debating and persuasion is worse than wrong. This article calls out the "backfire" effect.
I was one of them. I eventually figured out it doesn't work. I've been trying to find and learn better strategies.
I've tried to apply lessons learned from Camp Wellstone, Prof David Domke, http://www.heroesnarrative.org. (I even study people from the other side, like Frank Luntz, Ben Shapiro, Grover Norquist. Know they enemy and all that.)
I'm also very impressed by ideas from deradicalization, cult deprogramming, Chris Voss' (hostage negotiator) "radical empathy" and others. Guarded optimism that this stuff will help.
I'm just so sick of the food fight. Alas, there's still real work that needs to be done. And I'm forever trying to figure out how to sneak progress thru the chaos of war.
That's a nice change.
My people on the left keep doing the "fat shaming" equivalent (scolding) for politics and policy. Stubbornly wrong.
Most of the advice about debating and persuasion is worse than wrong. This article calls out the "backfire" effect.
I was one of them. I eventually figured out it doesn't work. I've been trying to find and learn better strategies.
I've tried to apply lessons learned from Camp Wellstone, Prof David Domke, http://www.heroesnarrative.org. (I even study people from the other side, like Frank Luntz, Ben Shapiro, Grover Norquist. Know they enemy and all that.)
I'm also very impressed by ideas from deradicalization, cult deprogramming, Chris Voss' (hostage negotiator) "radical empathy" and others. Guarded optimism that this stuff will help.
I'm just so sick of the food fight. Alas, there's still real work that needs to be done. And I'm forever trying to figure out how to sneak progress thru the chaos of war.