ARCast.TV - Exploring Disney Studios with Steve Davis

=An exceptional segment on persuasion.It’s a skill I could probably use more often, though I have questions surrounding the acquisition, value and use of such a skill.

There is a thought of reason that lends me to believe that the best idea should win out on the merits of the idea alone. It seems to be the case that the use of persuasion does not guarantee or truly promote that the most valiant of solutions is used.You say it took Columbus ten years to persuade the powers at the time to sponsor his endeavors. Ten years is a long time, especially back then when the life expectancy of an individual was shorter than it is today. I wonder if Columbus was a good persuader at all.I am clearly at a disadvantage when all to often some one with not the best idea wins out and continues to win out on the bases of how well that person “smooses”. I have a hard time going out with the boys for beer and chips on the bases that un-adulterated truth should prevail rather than what we perceive to be the strength of natural selection. Knowing full well the reality of the matter, politicking is the source of much movement; I still find it hard to fallow the main stream. I feel I would be taking steps back ward, in order to further my ideas or progression.I refuse to believe (Machiavelli was not a genius) that the end justifies the means. It only means that the individual or party is not smart enough to find solutions reasonable to fit with the end.I believe Columbus was an explorer. =