8 Reasons Why Disagreements Don’t Suck
18 December 07When expressing opinions in the public eye, you’re bound to encounter people who disagree with you. That’s not such a bad thing. Why doesn’t it suck?
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8 Reasons Why Disagreements Don’t Suck
1. You’re Not a Robot
Robots are programmed to do specific tasks, and nothing else. You’re not a robot, and neither are your readers. As humans, we all have the wonderful freedom of choice and the right to have an opinion. It’s part of life, so enjoy it.
2. You Become Smarter
Hmm…If someone doesn’t agree with you, does that automatically change your mindset? Heck no. A natural inclination is to attempt to backup your opinion with sound reasons. In order to express sound reasoning, brain stimulation is required. In effect, disagreements can make you a smarter person (in theory, anyway).
3. It Livens Things Up
You’ve obtained another comment, and regardless if it’s not a reaction you desired nor expected, your blog looks less dead with it there.
4. It Opens the Door to a Conversation
Disagreements gives you the opportunity to spark up a conversation. If everyone plays nice, you’ve succeeded at populating your blog a little more.
5. Fuel for Writing
Blogging day after day may cause a bit of a creative burnout(regardless if there are millions of topics to write about, most everyone I know has experienced some sort of block at one point or another). If you’ve come up with a lengthy rebuttal, you could save it for another post instead of replying in the comments section.
6. You Were Deemed Worthy of Energy Consumption
If a person puts forth the energy to read your article, come up with a reason for disagreeing with you, type out their reasons, and hit the ’submit comment’ button, well that means you are special…Well, special is an exaggeration, but if your opinion didn’t matter, no one would bother to reply.
Attention, even of a somewhat negative nature, is still exposure nonetheless.
7. Learning Experience
Maybe you ‘won’ the debate, or perhaps you were proven wrong. Now that you’ve got a taste for the negative, learn from it and prepare ahead for another similar event. Online disagreements happen all the time. As time goes by, you’ll be better able to foresee one coming, and be better able to handle it with dignity and respect.
8. Perspective
Creativity and thinking outside of the box is essential for creating outstanding content. Disagreements can open up another window and allow you to view ideas through different angles and perspectives other than the ones you are used to. So keep an open mind to the opinions of your audience. Doing so will allow you to mold and cater your content towards their likes and needs.
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All good points. Too often, however, there are those that can’t handle critique/criticism - usually because they haven’t let go of their ego nor have the learned that it’s not themselves that’s being spoken to but their ideas/position.
That’s very true Mani. Criticism can be hard to take, and can be hard on the ego.
I feel that if someone were to give me a critique with well intentions, I’ll be able to swallow my pride and make room for improvement.
Thank you for your thoughts.
Disagreement has good points too. It allows us to think over things. It also help us not to close our minds with the things we only believe in and is a learning process.
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