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kleinbl00 · 3980 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Dark Side of Emotional Intelligence - Adam Grant - The Atlantic
I think "influence" "persuasion" and "manipulation" are the same thing seen through three opinions. That's why the Greeks broke Logos and Ethos out - logic need not be ethical; ethics need not be logical. If anything, current research isn't so much challenging assumptions as it's challenging idealism. It's pretty idealistic to presume that a persuasive person would never be a manipulative person but a realist would recognize that the two positions are not separated by judgement but by aspersion. I shared it. It's worth talking about. But the article is pretty fluffy.