Recycling changes people-Ram Nandula Entry #2

Were you successful in convincing people to make a change in their lives in regards to your project? Why do you think they did or did not agree to make a change? What did you learn about what it takes to persuade people to make a change in their lifestyle and how can you more effectively convince people to make a change if you were to do this again?"

I was successful in convincing people to make a change in their lives mainly because most of the people were already recycling, but it was not sufficient to make Earth a better place. The main reason reason they recycled more was because of our presentation. They were impressed about the many advantages of recycling we listed in our presentation. We also convinced them easily by telling them that all you need to do is put some "paper in the bin." In fact, after we checked back with them, we found out that they were recycling about twice as much as they used to. I learned that you not only need a convincing presentation, but you need to actually understand what you researched. This is because in our "conversation" with the first group, we showed the video first, and we could tell that they were not convinced to make the change. Only when we spoke about it ourselves, they pledged to make the change. If I were to do this again, I would have reduced the number of unnecessary facts and replaced them with necessary ones.