Proving our point is counterproductive if we are not improving our viewpoint. Sometimes when we know that someone else is wrong and we go about assertively, even aggressively, trying to prove our point, we may succeed in winning the argument. But we may end up losing the person in the sense of alienating or even antagonizing them. To prevent this from happening, we also need to simultaneously try to improve our viewpoint. That means we try to understand why the other person does not get our point or has a different way of looking at things. When he thus express empathy and humility instead of arrogance and condescension, then we can win not just the argument but we can also win the other person over.

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16.02: Nonviolence; truthfulness; freedom from anger; renunciation; tranquillity; aversion to faultfinding; compassion for all living entities; freedom from covetousness; gentleness; modesty; steady determination; … – these transcendental qualities belong to godly men endowed with divine nature.