One area of Epstein’s book that I feel can further my conversations would be raising objections. I thought this area was something that we face in everyday life. Whether it be customers we are dealing with, or someone that’s catering to us. We face ideas and thoughts that we object to all day long, simply because everyone has their own beliefs. I think raising objections is just a way for you to show how you feel about a situation or idea that someone has shown you. I think there often times wrong ways of raising objections and that it tends to scare people. If done properly you or the other person might be able to learn more about an idea that you may not have known before. It is almost one of those situations where you don’t want to judge a book by its cover, because maybe you havn’t done enough research on that book to know what it is your talking about.
Yes... the hardest part of this, I believe, is when someone is talking about a subject or saying something that downright offends you. It doesn’t even have to be about something you’ve done, said, or are. Even if it’s just something that you believe in and support, how are you supposed to raise your objections to the speaker about the issues you face with what that person is saying? It seems like most of the time, many people may object to something or want to talk about their objections, but just decide not to so they don’t get backlash or feel like the other person will look at them in a different light because of it.
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