Validate Before The Debate

Vet your information before claiming it as fact and you'll improve your communication skills and have more tact.

Grasshopper Notes are the writings from America's Best Known Hypnotherapist John Morgan. His podcasts contain his most responded to essays and blog posts from the past two decades. 

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Transcript

Validate Before The Debate

I would highly encourage anyone who enters a discussion to shift from “pontificate” to “validate” and not take the bait to argue without the facts.

This doesn’t mean you can’t believe something without the facts. We do that all the time. Just don’t waste time arguing with someone about that topic, it will keep them myopic – they’ll never see your point.

It seems that arguing without the facts is at the root of most arguments. Basically you’re attempting to jam something down someone’s throat they can’t digest.

If you’re presenting a belief or an opinion as the “truth” and you can’t back it up, that will cause fireworks. Especially if you have someone on the other end with incontrovertible proof, which will make your opinion go “Poof.”

Wanna look stupid less often? Stop arguing for something you can’t prove. That doesn’t mean you can’t discuss it. Just remember to label it . . . as opinion.

It doesn’t matter how many people agree that your point is valid if, in fact, it’s a spouting of unsubstantiated word salad. Opinion stated as fact is just argument fodder.

And one final note for politicians who want to remain on the low rung of approval: Keep debating without the facts and you’ll set the stage for voter removal.

All the best,

John