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: A child who has an opinion about politics based on snippets of conversation he hears in passing is less informed than a seasoned adult who reads newspapers and watches the evening news. You may prefer the side of the aisle that the child seems to lean better than that of the adult, however that doesn’t make the child’s opinion more reliable. If you asked the child to defend his opinion with fact it is likely his argument would fall apart. It is hard to take someone’s opinion seriously if the person appears to be making statements that are incompatible with observations and reality. Steven Covey wrote in his book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: “Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see [or voice our opinion] we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms. When other people disagree with us, we immediately think something is wrong with them, But, [as I have shown in this book] sincere clearheaded people see things differently, each looking through the unique lens of experience.”