How your point of view can destroy your chances
Published: January 25, 2017

In my last blog I talked about how I wrote a Facebook post about Donald J Trump which created a long debate and got quite heated at times.

One of the people on that thread, decided to do something I considered to be shallow and cowardly.

They chose to start a new conversation about the same subject matter and posted it on my personal timeline showing a highly edited video from Donald J Trump’s inauguration. Not only was this posted on my personal timeline, but they tagged everyone who had disagreed with my previous post and directly excluded all those who had previously agreed with me. In doing so they clearly wanted a one-sided debate and an attack against me.

My response to their post was swift and clear:

“I never said he (Donald J Trump) was an angel. If you had taken the time to actually read what I have written, you would see I have very clearly stated that he has behaved badly in some instances.

Now had you read my posts you would see how I’m explaining the press is manipulating the circumstances, and now I see that you too have bought into the same manipulated trap!

Rather than read and understand what I have written you have picked up on one issue then searched around the internet for the most negative clip of just 8 seconds. Then you decide to post it my timeline, tagging in all the people who had a different opinion to my own. And you are shouting for EQUALITY! How equal is what you are doing? It’s shameful behaviour done by those who are allowing themselves to be manipulated by the press to further their personal cause.

Surely you’re intelligent enough to realise that unless you know the whole story from both sides, then this is just a distortion of all the facts.

As it would appear that you have not followed anything I have said I will make it clear one last time.  I believe in fairness.

I don’t necessarily like Trump as a person, although I have not met him. My belief from what I have seen and heard is that he’s narcissistic. Yes he will be a ME brand, after all he has spent the last 40 years creating it. I do not agree with all his policies and how he has articulated all of them either. However I do respect, what he has achieved and I do respect the democratic process.

You have taken the action to start a whole new thread on my personal Facebook page, rather than add this to the original comment thread where those who are following it can contribute.

This is a very one-sided unequal argument that you are looking to have. If you believe in equality… then please learn how to practice it! But then again, there is a saying… we teach (or rather in your case preach) what we most need to learn!”

The person, whose name I shall not mention, received no responses from the many people they tagged seeking their support for their highly narrow-minded view. Instead what happened was I had extensive support for my reply.

As the support continued for me, it was clearly too much to bear and within a few hours they took their post down.  I wish I had taken a screen shot of the post, but at least I kept a copy of my reply.

Based on the evidence of this persons character, they will always struggle to make an impact and have any level of success. This is because they have decided to take a very narrow view of the world, wishing to always to be right from just one point of view.

If you are looking for success it is essential to take a step back and seek the bigger picture from many different points of view. They say that you cannot ever empathise with anyone until you have walked a mile their shoes.

Any buyer will have a different point of view from the seller. A marketer will see different things to an engineer, who in turn will see things differently to a designer.

So to gain more impact, get yourself an understanding of as many areas as you can to have a more complete picture and remember that a strong bias point of view can destroy your chances.

Andy T Cumming
Follow Me
Latest posts by Andy T Cumming (see all)