Persuasion dynamics
For one to be persuasive enough, one has to have a collection of some persuasive skills. Much of these skills are best tested when one understands well his persuasive tricks. These skills are always built from common psychological processes, like the type of messages that influences someone, personal attitudes, and how they affect our lives.
Identify two messages that influence you, and give their nature.
Two types of messages that really influence me are messages that really require my understanding and messages that require force to put it into action. The message type requiring understanding is the persuasive message like reading of books or a mathematical formula. The other message requiring power is the coercive message like mobilizing people to get into some action.
A reflection on attitudes and its effect in personal lives.
Two things that I dislike is idleness and mental slavery while things that I really like is finding me busy most of the time and being freed from mental slavery. The ability to make sound decisions based on my well grounded facts and convictions.
Reason to this attitude(s) is after seeing the results of mental slavery and idle minds. Mental slavery leads to a mechanical life where one is not able to make decisions based on what he wants making him to live a life that is not what he desires. An idle mind leads to hazardous effect which none bears excellent results ranging from physical to mental unwell being. Possession of these attitudes always makes me crave for mental freedom and a hardworking lifestyle. This makes me feel satisfied both mentally socially and financially.
Works cited
Perloff, Richard M. The dynamics of persuasion: Communication and attitudes in the twenty-first century. Routledge, 2020.
Weisbuch, Gérard, Guillaume Deffuant, and Frédéric Amblard. “Persuasion dynamics.” Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 353 (2005): 555-575.