Engaging in conflict with someone over their views is purely an exercise trying to control them. Which you’ll never do from arguing with them. You’ll just start a fight.
The struggle you feel is because you want to control their opinion, even more than you actually want them to agree with you. Because if they’re going to agree with you, they’re going to agree with you by making up their own mind to do it. You can’t coerce them.
So, why are you trying to control their opinion? Are you worried that your own opinion isn’t as solid as you hope, if it’s only held by yourself?
Fox Michaels is a Certified Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Practitioner from the Academy of Modern Applied Psychology. He is an intuitive leader with more than 15 years experience as a trainer. In his spare time, Fox writes the ongoing blog Like a Fox!, where he shares his fun, joyful approach to life and love, as his own way of contributing to the Human Potential Movement. When not reading from his library full of personal development books, you can find Fox enjoying the cinema perks of being on AMC’s A-List, and also working to make sure that he’s the most stylish man on his own Instagram page. Feel free to check out if he's succeeding with that @foxmichaels.
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