Tips to control other people's thoughts were born 350 years ago

17th-century philosopher Blaise Pascal is famous for Pascal's Wager theory. This theory argues that believing in God is a pragmatic decision of man, and whether God exists or not, believing in God is always beneficial, if God does not exist then there is no harm.

However, recently, this theory is also accepted by psychologists. As the Brain Pickings page points out, a few centuries ago, Pascal came up with the most effective way to make others change their views before official studies about it.

The study said: "When we want to correct someone, we have to recognize the problem from that person's perspective, admitting that it is often right from that angle, but revealing to him the angle that He is happy with that because he sees that he doesn't make a mistake, he just doesn't look at every angle, today, no one feels offended when he doesn't see everything. Things, but they don't like their mistakes, this may stem from the fact that human nature can't see everything, and of course we can't make mistakes in the perspective we see because We always assume that our perception is always right. "

Blaise Pascal - 17th century philosopher.

Pascal added that, in general, people are more convinced when the reasons given are discovered by them instead of coming from the minds of others.

Simply put, he thinks that before opposing someone, you must first point out their right side. And to persuade others to change their views, lead them to discover their opposite views.

Author Markman - professor of psychology at the University of Texas, Austin, USA said that both points are correct.

"One of the first things you have to do to change your opinion is to reduce their precaution and prevent them from insisting on keeping their opinions, " he said.

"If I immediately say that all your opinions are wrong, you will not have the motivation to cooperate. But if I start by saying" Well yes, you have given some very right points in Here, I think these are important issues, "you are giving the other party a reason to cooperate as part of the exchange."

In other words, Markman thinks that Pascal is not only a mathematician, physicist, philosopher, but also a psychologist.