People operate mostly via mimesis with a little bit of reason sprinkled on top. So it has been mostly about modifying the environment so that they will be more exposed to high status information sources saying the useful things rather than trying to pelt them with facts myself. e.g. if you show them a dashboard, people will often go back and check it themselves. If you invite them to a social media group posting updates they will find their own info and convince themselves.
Introduce changes in routines slowly over the span of a few days. Arrange cleaning supplies so that they are available but not in your face initially. Then a couple days later add to them or make them more prominent. This is much like animal behavior training. Elephant and rider. There’s a famous quote that says something to the effect: ‘the job of intellectuals isn’t to change things now. It’s to be ready with plans so that when the crisis comes and people are scrambling about for options you already have something neat and tidy to drop in their laps.’ If you are gentle with the facts up front, when they do get convinced by the turning of the social tides they are much more likely to come to you as you’ve seeded the idea that you’ve already been tracking and following things. At that point if you’ve already bought the supplies and printed the checklists you make a nice pain free glidepath for them.
People operate mostly via mimesis with a little bit of reason sprinkled on top. So it has been mostly about modifying the environment so that they will be more exposed to high status information sources saying the useful things rather than trying to pelt them with facts myself. e.g. if you show them a dashboard, people will often go back and check it themselves. If you invite them to a social media group posting updates they will find their own info and convince themselves.
Introduce changes in routines slowly over the span of a few days. Arrange cleaning supplies so that they are available but not in your face initially. Then a couple days later add to them or make them more prominent. This is much like animal behavior training. Elephant and rider. There’s a famous quote that says something to the effect: ‘the job of intellectuals isn’t to change things now. It’s to be ready with plans so that when the crisis comes and people are scrambling about for options you already have something neat and tidy to drop in their laps.’ If you are gentle with the facts up front, when they do get convinced by the turning of the social tides they are much more likely to come to you as you’ve seeded the idea that you’ve already been tracking and following things. At that point if you’ve already bought the supplies and printed the checklists you make a nice pain free glidepath for them.