Title: Five Tips for Expressing Opinions Politely ⋆ Social Skills Company
Headings: Five Tips for Expressing Opinions Politely
Five Tips for Expressing Opinions Politely
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Five Tips for Expressing Opinions Politely

Content: Key phrases soften opinions so that the listener is less likely to feel accosted by an opinion. 2. Consider the audience. If you say, “I hate raspberries, nothing good has ever come from someone eating a raspberry. They are sour, hairy, and have small seeds that get stuck in my teeth and to make matters worse, they get moldy overnight,” to a raspberry farmer, chances are you will offend the farmer. People with good social skills take the feelings of the listener into account before blurting out an opinion. Rarely is an opinion so important that the listener must be burdened. Take a moment to consider to whom you are expressing your opinion. Maybe that conversation about politics should be shelved because you know that raising the topic will get the other person fired up. If you know that you get your feelings hurt when people don’t agree with you about a certain topic, maybe choose not to discuss the volatile subject.