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The ability to persuade others that your course is the right one . The ability to discuss issues and techniques in public with an eye to reaching decisions about policy . The ability to conceptualize and reorganize information into new patterns . The ability to pull what you need quickly from masses of irrelevant data .

Why is it required of us to have the skills to persuade others to see things the way that we do ?
So we may get them to do whatever is it that we wanted done .