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Get mad at them when they continue to make the same mistakes.
Yes, there is a difference.
I’ve heard that for people to be teachable they have to feel safe. Feeling afraid makes your body enter a defensive stance and this includes not only resisting harm but also resisting knowledge transfer. I assume that’s why people who struggle with a subject at school sometimes have a difficult time catching up even when with tutoring.
It would then be similar to how you can’t convince a stranger who believes in wrong things - controversial topics cause stressful situations and when you’re seen as an enemy their brain goes into a defensive mode, distrusting you and not letting new information in. You first have to build up a certain level of trust and mutual understanding.
Maybe that’s nothing new. Either way, this picture reminded me of that.
That’s how I feel trying to talk to the fat left people on here or the far right people I know IRL.
The second they feel they are on the defensive (which is usually instantaneously) there is no more actual learning conversation taking place. It’s defensive lockdown mode. Really kills free discussion that could open peoples minds to alternate perspectives
