How to Deeply Influence Others and Yourself

James Van Fleet once said, “Always think in terms of what the other person wants.”

During my nearly 10 years of marriage, I’ve discovered that one of the keys to a successful relationship is thinking in terms of what my wife wants. For instance, there are times when my wife wants to watch a romantic movie when I’d prefer to watch an action movie. You might be saying,”Great! Let her watch her romantic movie and you go watch an action movie on another television.” Good idea, my rational thinking friend. However, if I were to act on that type of thinking my wife wouldn’t get what she really wanted it from the experience. Connectedness. Guess what? I want to feel that too.

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[from immediateinfluenceblog.com]

Effective argument: Key to debate success

Debate success is predicated on effective argument. To be effective, one must be fair, honest and accepting. Using these simple rules, debaters can walk away from the table as friends every single time.

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[from helium.com]

Adjudication Tips for Beginners

Learn to Adjudicate

Judigng a debate well is not an easy skill to learn, and requires you to work as hard than the students during the debate. You must be able to provide a substantiated and well-founded Reason For your Decision (RFD) to explain to the students who won and why.

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[from debates.org]

THE ART OF DEBATE

A easy to follow presentation about debating.

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Persuasion and How to Influence Others

By Steve Bressert, Ph.D.

Human relationships are based upon a largely unconscious system of give and take. “I will do this for you even if I won’t get something in return right now, because you will ‘owe me one’ for future redemption.”
Robert B. Cialdini, professor in psychology at Arizona State University, has been studying the importance of persuasion in influencing our social and workplace relationships.
From his research in this area, Cialdini has identified six widely used and usually successful principles of influence:

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[from psychcentral.com]

Propaganda and Debating Techniques

As you read the following pages, you will be exposed to quite a variety of deceptive propaganda techniques, logical fallacies, and lies (hopefully, none of them mine). You might as well learn a little about how the art and science of propaganda works, so that you can recognize the techniques as people try to fool your mind with them.
You probably already know a lot about this, whether you realize it or not, because politicians pull many of these standard stunts on you every election year, and you have grown immune to some of them. And modern advertising uses a lot of them, too, and you just tune them out. Nevertheless, let's just do a quick over-view of propaganda techniques. Bear in mind that "propaganda" is not inherently a dirty word — it just usually is. Any time you are trying to convince anyone of something, you are using some kind of persuasion, debating, or propaganda technique. Just telling the whole truth about something is one simple propaganda technique, and a highly effective one. But lying often works better, at least with some audiences... Master these propaganda techniques, and you too will be able to proselytize and promote cult religion and radical politics just like a battle-hardened old-timer.

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[from orange-papers.org]

Debate Dos and Don'ts: From Bush and Kerry Debate

Here is a article from Fox News in 2004 for dos and donts for then Presidential candidates George W. Bush and John F. Kerry.

Aside from these dos and donts being for them, there are some tips that all can learn from.

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