It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think
it was their own ideas. — Nelson Mandela
The preceding article in this series – Asking the Right Questions to Swiftly Achieve 100% Renewable Energy – showed how you can ask the right questions to evolve a decision-making process for swiftly achieving 100% renewable energy.
Evolving a solution – in the form of a decision-making process for swiftly achieving 100% renewable energy – is useless unless a group of decision-makers is persuaded to make a consensus decision to implement the solution.
How might you persuade decision-makers to make such a consensus decision?
You might persuade decision-makers to make such a consensus decision by engaging them in conversation and inviting them to consider asking themselves, “What might right questions for swiftly achieving 100% renewable energy sound like?”
If the question, “What might right questions for swiftly achieving 100% renewable energy sound like?” is itself a Jonas-Salk-style right question, then pre-existing answers revealed by that right question might sound like these right questions:
(1) What might achieving 100% renewable energy look like?
(2) What might a decision for achieving 100% renewable energy look like?
(3) What might a decision-making process for achieving 100% renewable energy look like?
(4) What might swiftly achieving 100% renewable energy look like?
When you engage decision-makers in conversation – and invite them to consider asking themselves right questions – you engage them in thinking about the pre-existing answers revealed by those right questions.
By thinking about the pre-existing answers revealed by those right questions, decision-makers persuade themselves of the pre-existing answers.
As decision-makers persuade themselves of the pre-existing answers, decision-makers persuade themselves — and come into consensus — on implementing a solution evolved from the pre-existing answers.
When you invite decision-makers to consider asking themselves the right questions, not only do decision-makers come into consensus on implementing such a solution – which might look like a decision-making process for swiftly achieving 100% renewable energy and reversing global warming — they think the solution was their own idea.
This is what Nelson Mandela was talking about when he said:
It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own ideas.
Nelson Mandela
You persuade people to do extraordinary things – like ending apartheid, or swiftly achieving 100% renewable energy and reversing global warming – by inviting them to consider asking themselves the right questions.
By inviting them to consider asking themselves the right questions, you engage them in thinking about the pre-existing answers revealed by those right questions.
By thinking about the pre-existing answers, people persuade themselves of the pre-existing answers.
As people persuade themselves of the pre-existing answers – and come into consensus on implementing a solution evolved from the pre-existing answers — they think that the solution was their own idea.
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In the next article in this Reversing Global Warming series, I’ll show you what achieving 100% renewable energy might look like. You’ll be astonished at how simple it is.
Thank you for reading this article. I’m grateful for your comments.
