Speak Logically, Positively
Attempts to motivate people on the basis of painful emotion exacerbate* the very difficulties that keep people from moving. To persist on the basis of logic will eventually win through even the heaviest distress patterns, since reality continually offers arguments supportive of your position. Even though people reject your logical position and cling to one of painful emotion, out of their addiction to distress, the passing of events will show the bankruptcy of the painful-emotion approach and eventually the people will come back to you, if you are persistently offering a logical direction.
Harvey Jackins
From "Logical Thinking About
a Future Society," page 40
* ”Exacerbate” means make more severe.
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