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Persuasion is a component that lies within the art of negotiation. We can talk about our persuasive skills. Everyone uses them, whether they recognize so or not, but persuasion is not commonly explored, to find out what it's all about. I can think of a few basics, when we look at it from the 10K view.
The first thing that pops up is that persuasion always involves selling something (in our case, we are talking about selling ideas and so forth). Overt persuasion (I would call in unartful, un-crafty persuasion) is, no matter what is in question, inadvertently creates a visceral reaction in the person being persuaded (sold). You are not just dealing with the person, their psychology, nature, but also all the bad negotiators that came before you. I cannot emphasize that fact enough.
Where you enter into here is the study of interpersonal skills, beneath the umbrella of negotiating. There's a lot of stuff we could talk about and share over, and it's always interesting.
I will put one into the fire. I think this is a key and critical issue with Objectivism, as MSK pointed out, and it would be benefecial to talk about that, if everyone were able to stay calm during that process. There's a few ways I could put this, I don't know which one is best. Maybe the benevolent way to say it is that students of Ayn Rand's system of philosophy very often let their passion overtake them, to their own disadvantage. Knowing what you want, and knowing how to get what you want are two very different things.
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