2006-07-20 10:49:09 · 6 answers · asked by Benjamin H 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
People only change when they want to change.
You can try to be an example, but if you succeed in being a bad example (your chances are 50/50), then you will help entrench their way of thinking rather than change it.
What makes people decide to change? When they come to realize they can improve. And if they think they are fine as they are, they will not change.
Period.
2006-07-20 14:40:55 · answer #1 · answered by joyfulpaints 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It isn't an easy process. But the likelyhood is absolute certainty over time...now I guess it depends what you mean by "person" because you might be refering to a manifest ego in the material world, but over many lifetimes, through the building up of conscience and through service to one's fellow man, the intuitive sense will become stronger until it is at least equal to intellect.
2006-07-20 18:45:25 · answer #2 · answered by keats27 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is just my intuitive opinion, but I think if you are wired to be intellectual or intuitive you will not change. Wired meaning you were born leaning one way or the other.
2006-07-20 17:55:28 · answer #3 · answered by Sunnidaze 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like computers it depends on the data they are fed. If you change the givens then the thought pattern must change as well.
Think assumptions.
2006-07-20 19:05:02 · answer #4 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on how educated that person is. ive had philosophy teachers who wouldnt change their points of view or ways of thinking for nothing.
but just your ordinary joe who prefers to think things out might be more likely to change.
i think the more you think you know than the less open you are to anything else.
2006-07-20 18:05:59 · answer #5 · answered by sean_mchugh6 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would that person want to change?
2006-07-20 17:54:40 · answer #6 · answered by drew2718281 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋