Tamsen Webster argues that changing someone's mind is the wrong goal. Instead, find a shared definition of the specific problem you're solving together, and move forward from there.
We can say, I agree with you here. I just don't agree with all of it. In that case, you don't have to resolve the whole spectrum. We don't have to convince someone to change their entire view of reality. We just need to find the way to talk about the same thing in a way that we both can move forward. The answer, or at least an answer for how to help an idea take hold in somebody who sees the world differently, is to arrive at a scoped definition of what it is that you're talking about.
