Comment by andrewstuart

Minds can’t be changed when a decision was based on emotion.

One day I told a friend how I could make no sense of my girlfriend’s behavior in some situation.

He said to me “you still think people make decisions on logic. Many people make their decisions on how they feel emotionally. Logic and facts have nothing to do with it.”

Suddenly a light switched on and i realized that I’m a typical computer person who thinks that everything is based on logic and if you can just explain clearly enough, explain the facts, then the other person will change their mind when they see the facts. It doesn’t work that way.

Computer people have real trouble getting their head around this concept.