1). Have you found it difficult to confirm others when you disagree with them? If so, does reading this chapter help you distinguish between recognition, acknowledgement, and endorsement? Can you distinguish between confirming others as people and endorsing particular ideas?
Most of the time it was pretty easy for me to confirm others when i disagreed with them. The only hard cases were the individuals that were stubborn and hard headed. I feel like confirming stubborn people does not change their way of thinking and therefore it leads to disconfirming. At times, confirming will work but most of the people that i have conversed with that were stubborn were very hard to get through to. I try my best to be endorsing to others but sometimes it's really difficult to phrase our words in that sense. After reading this chapter, it's helped me be able to distinguish between confirming others as people and endorsing particular ideas. This chapter made me think back to the times where i gave advice to my friends and I see that most of the time i was only acknowledging them. Surprisingly, when i first decided to take this course, i didn't think i would retain much from this course but it's nice to see the chapters that we have read so far really impact my way of thinking!
TickleMeElmo:
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, I'm one of those stubborn people you referred to. I really don't mean to be but a lot of the time my emotions get the best of me and override my ability to see other's sides of things. But I completely agree with what you said at the end of your post. I also wasn't really sure what to expect going into this class but I've found a lot of the material fascinating and I often can't help but to share some of the things I've learned with my friends and my boyfriend (who are now sick of hearing about it haha).
Anyway, great post! :)