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This sentence comes from a passage in the Analects of Confucius: "Lure it to benefit, move it with emotion, seek it with reason, and get it with law." The "seeking truth" in this sentence later evolved into "moving with reason, knowing with emotion"
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"Lure it with profit, move it with emotion, seek it with reason, and get it with law."
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Attract them with interests, impress them with feelings, seek them with reason, and obtain them with law.
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What this sentence mainly wants to express is that when educating and guiding others, we should combine rational and perceptual methods, guide people with rationality and impress people with sensibility. The combination of the two can produce better results.
Creation background
The Analects of Confucius is one of the classics of ancient culture in China. The words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples were recorded by his disciples and their descendants. This sentence is a method put forward when discussing how to guide people to do the right thing.
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Attracting interests means attracting others with interests;
To move with emotion is to impress others with emotion;
Seeking truth means seeking truth to guide others;
To get the law is to use the law to get the cooperation of others.
Enlightenment of life
In life, we often need to convince others, whether at work or in daily life. "Move with reason, know with emotion" means that when persuading others, we need to adopt rational and emotional methods to achieve better results.
For example, when we need to convince our colleagues to support our ideas, we can first explain that our ideas are correct with facts and data, so that the other party can rationally agree with ourselves. But if the other party is still unwilling to support us, we can also try to find the other party's pain points from the other party's feelings and express our thoughts in emotional language in order to impress the other party's heart. Only in this way can we better convince others and achieve a win-win effect.
In addition, in our daily communication, we can also use the method of "moving with reason and knowing people with emotion" to get along with people more harmoniously. For example, when we have conflicts with relatives or friends, we can understand each other's thoughts and positions through rational communication, and then let each other know their emotional needs through emotional expression, so as to resolve the conflicts.
In a word, the phrase "move with reason, understand with emotion" means that when persuading others, we need to use both rational and emotional methods, which is a very practical skill for us to get along with others in our work and life.