
Episode 6: Respecting context and independence
The Human Flourishing Project
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The Opposition Story - The First Time I'd Ever Written a Book
i would use this declare approach, and it wouldn't work very well. And so one day i just tried something that seemed random at the time, but i later understood that there was something really profound there. So instead of declaring my conclusion to somebody as something that they should agree with, i just told them that it was my conclusion, and then i would just elaborate a little bit. Instead of breeding resistance, which people had when i would tell them that something was right and and by implication that they should believe it, when i just telling them the story of my own conclusion, they were curious, and they say, oh, that's interesting. Tell me more.
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