How do one live with people that don't care or believe in your ideas?

Answer 1

The real trick is having enough confidence in yourself and your ideals, to listen to disagreeing attitudes, and take the comments you hear, and use them to further evolve your thoughts on the world and your place in it. It can be the simplest point or the most complicated one.

Do you realize that you are also doing this for those who disagree with you? You may be surprised that someone having watched your resolve for a while and finally seeing your viewpoint, can change their minds.

In other words, be yourself, and let others be themselves. Learn from everything, teach everyone.

Answer 2

I think you have to not care about whether they care or not..

If your ideas are solid they will stand up on their own and without the support of anyone but you. If they aren't solid that will eventually be revealed to you when/if you gain information that points out why an idea wasn't solid.

Either way, your ideas are yours; and if you're going to go with them you need to be strong enough to stay with them even if you are the only one who believes in your ideas.

No matter what the ideas are, there will never be a time when everyone will believe in you; and there is something about our families that makes them lean toward not believing in us a good part of the time. You just need to be strong enough to go it alone.

There is a song that says, "They all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world was round. They all laughed when Edison recorded sound. They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother when they said that man could fly. They told Marconi wireless was a phony, now they're eating humble pie." Just remember that getting others to care about or believe in your ideas is difficult at best - and think of how the words to this old song show how the problem has been around since the beginning of time.

Answer 3

Find out what they believe and what they care about and discuss not just the differences but also the points where you agree. This way your own vision and the other person's vision is enlarged and both come to a respectful understanding of ech other's beliefs. This is, by the way, just one of the tiny ways in which we can all work for peace in the world. It all starts on a one-to-one understanding.

Answer 4

We all want to be validated. It is hard when you have beliefs and ideas that aren't the same as those with whom you live.

If you feel strongly, then no one can cause you to change. You should move on and find those who have the same feelings that you do.

In the meantime, as long as you truly believe (and are not saying you do because you think it makes you different from the people around you) that is all that matters. Your validation must come from within.

Answer 5

We are all different. People don't need to believe in your ideas, just as you don't need to believe in theirs. Mostly believe in yourself. It is good if people at least respect each other and the ideas. Mostly we change other people by changing ourselves, and then that changes how others react to us. So if you are living with people who don't react well to you think about the situation and figure out what you could do differently to change their reactions to you. Best of luck.

Answer 6

ask john. he knows how to snuff out fledgling ideas that do not match his own.

While some people who answer here are professional. There is a wide variance, though. There are people, such as "john", who are not qualified to give answers to 2 year olds. As they put condescending opinion and cruel delivery above the evidence. They believe convoluted bombast is the equal of intelligence and education. Sad, really, but such ignorance is also dangerous, as the " ego maniac " can stifle creative thought from inquisitive impressionable minds.

best bet is to ignore fools like this and continue your journey towards wisdom.

Answer 7

It's your life, not theirs! The only one who has to care and believe in your own ideas is YOU!

Answer 8

Each of us has the right to our own ideas and beliefs. If you don't find like minded people at home, you will find them elsewhere!

If it is a serious problem, you can always move!

Answer 9

Go about ignoring them as if they don't care or believe in your ideas. Don't try to please them. Instead, find friends who share the same interests as you, and you'll be better off

Answer 10

tough it out or try getting your point across... if they don't want to hear your point, then don't listen to theirs... tell them that if they start respectiong your thoughts then you'll do the same with their thoughts.