My two cents about influencing people to work on a cause:
I’ve miscommunicated in that most people think I have a particular cause in mind.
Causes may be general, but actions are specific. If I want to encourage action, therefore, I ought to be as specific as possible about what I want people to do. Often a useful combination is to raise a general problem and suggest a specific action people can perform to avoid it. It helps if the two are actually related in some way, though it’s disappointingly unnecessary in many cases.
You don’t “only need to convince them once.” Actual persistent behavior change is not usually a fire-and-forget thing; it’s the result of continual effort. One reason so few people manage it is because we aren’t willing to do the work.
Good points. That sort of implies that you can’t really inspire people to go work on a cause without sticking around to tell them what that entails afterwards.
How helpful do you think it would be to just teach rationality to people for them to do whatever they’re working on now?
I’ve miscommunicated in that most people think I have a particular cause in mind.
Good points. That sort of implies that you can’t really inspire people to go work on a cause without sticking around to tell them what that entails afterwards.
How helpful do you think it would be to just teach rationality to people for them to do whatever they’re working on now?
Well, that is EY’s ostensible purpose with this whole forum, so it’s at least appropriate.