{"id":20357,"date":"2022-10-03T20:04:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T00:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=20357"},"modified":"2022-10-06T19:58:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T23:58:48","slug":"how-do-you-convince-people-that-individual-actions-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/10\/03\/how-do-you-convince-people-that-individual-actions-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you convince people that individual actions matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_5166.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"305\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_5166.jpg\" alt=\"How do you convince people that individual actions matter?\" class=\"wp-image-20355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_5166.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_5166-300x286.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>How do you convince people that individual actions matter?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s necessary to have hope &#8211; the faith that one&#8217;s actions will influence results. When people are either optimistic (i.e. &#8220;things will improve regardless of my participation&#8221;) or pessimistic (&#8220;things will get worse regardless of my participation&#8221;), it can be hard to shake them out of a sitting-on-the-sidelines mindset. Remind them of things they *have* had an influence on, no matter how small.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s necessary to have hope &#8211; the faith that one&#8217;s actions will influence results. When people are either optimistic (i.e. &#8220;things will improve regardless of my participation&#8221;) or pessimistic (&#8220;things will get worse regardless of my participation&#8221;), it can be hard to shake them out of a sitting-on-the-sidelines mindset. Remind them of things they *have* &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/10\/03\/how-do-you-convince-people-that-individual-actions-matter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How do you convince people that individual actions matter?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20425,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20357\/revisions\/20425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}