Daryl Davis
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Because they only know what they know.
If you keep trying, it's going to escalate.
You're going to get loud and keep on trying.
It's going to...
You call it's going to be rolling around on the ground hitting each other or whatever, right?
Because all fights start with yelling and screaming.
So rather than try to attack somebody's reality and try to set their reality straight, don't do that.
You'll fail.
What you do is you offer them a better perception or perceptions.
And if they resonate with one of your perceptions, like showing them this guy speaks very eloquently, that guy speaks like a moron.
Just let them see it.
That perception then resonates with them and they change their own reality.
So don't focus on how you're going to change somebody's reality.
Focus on what kind of perceptions can I offer that person that might resonate.
You know, when Jeff and I were in that Christmas grill and he thought he was getting along too well with the enemy being me.
and he started beating his fists on the table, and that's shown in the documentary, he was trying to get a rise out of me, because I wasn't behaving the way he was expecting me to behave.
And so when he went into Nazi mode,
I remained the same way.