George Lakoff on how to understand & talk to the opposition EFFECTIVELY

[patrice]

Run time: 09:51 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T46bSyh0xc0   Posted on YouTube: July 08, 2010 By YouTube Member: dibszi Views on YouTube: 1240   Posted on DU: September 13, 2011 By DU Member: patrice Views on DU: 535

 
Please have patience with this series.

Lakoff lays down concrete fundamentals and then builds on them to provide some very good practical advice on how to be more effective with people who really need our help to grasp the situations that threaten us all.

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7piNmK-H55Y&feature=related
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpcvH7x1aY&feature=related
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AEUfOBrVHo&feature=related
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN0ZYJOLcvQ&feature=related
Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wt18IXDm1U&feature=related

Sat nam!

[ashling]

1. I have always had some mixed feelings about Lakoff

I like Lakoff, but I am sort of put off by him - he is kind of tiring. He spends a lot of time telling us about new discoveries in Italy and the way synapses work as the basis for what we alredy know.

A lot of what he is saying are things that we've all (I hope) known since grade school - some intuitively

1) Its easier to convince somebody of something if you form a relationship with them first

2) to form a relationship with someone you need to figure out what you have in common - AND START FROM THERE.

3) Nobody likes to be talked down to , yelled at, or insulted. - you get more flies with honey, etc.

Thus, when you find someone who needs convining, find out what you have in common and start from there and don't talk down to them.

I understand that there are higher levels of learning and understanding this stuff, as well as new ways to look at it. In political science, for instance, we talk about "cross cutting cleavages" which is just another way of saying that people have different interests - some of which are held in common with others who have interests diametrically opposed on other issues.

We talk here all the time about not letting the other side define the issue...or the language