Written By Issa Napon
Edited by Caitlin Cruz
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The word persuade is linked to the art of influencing
someone to do or go the way we want, it is way to reach our
goals with the help of other people. That means to possess
features that can help you to get the attention of the
people whose help is needed. Of course, to me, being able to
influence people requires you to be charismatic,
trustworthy, honest, show evidence of courage, and have good
body language in addition to one’s art of speaking. Getting
people to do what we want requires these skills and there
are numerous examples to support this thesis.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a very good speaker –
charismatic, and all the qualities cited earlier. So was
Mahatma Ghandi, Nelson Mandela and so on. People need to be
confident of the fact that they won’t be betrayed, that they
can really rely on the speaker or leader to be supportive in
any case, for what they could even sacrifice their life to
fulfill the task. That requires persuasion as well some
leadership skills. When you are in a ship in distress, if a
commandant cabin crew or a one of his sailors do not trust
him to do right things, they might take different decision
on they own to their loss. But at once the commandant takes
care of his delivering, in his way of speaking to his men,
behaving on right ways no matter the relentless issues
occurring on the sea, showing evidence of knowledge and
authority being inventive, he is likely to get all his
request fulfilled by any one he addresses. That means to me,
a long life habit of doing things on right ways and working
to stay as honest and trustworthy as possible, so that, from
your background and daily life anyone cannot deny your
leadership and abilities of achieving goals no matter the
issues encountered.
Here is motivation failure
When you work on your character and have the feeling that
it’s all your best you do to move forward, you are likely to
be successful every time because all the issues you will be
facing will be solved by that strength. The same goes for
when it comes to convincing people to do things: Your
character-based principle and your rhetoric makes your
charisma and trustworthiness shine on people you are talking
to, and of course they will be more likely to listen and
more to act in your favor.
It is a matter of who you are.
As said
John Wooden in his
book WOODEN ON LEADERSHIP, “Be more concerned with your
character than your reputation, because your character is
what you really are, while your reputation is merely what
other think you are.”
Aristotle seals that principle by the powerful following statement: “Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion” in his “RHETORIC”. That is what I believe in the most.
for more information about character ethics:http://http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1995858,00.html
http://http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/2s.htm
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