Confirmation

This chapter was very helpful in acknowledging the different types of confirmation. Recognition is the lowest form of confirmation and basically means that you just acknowledge that the other person is alive. The next form is acknowledgement which means that one acknowledges other people’s feelings and thoughts. The highest form of confirmation is endorsement which occurs when someone not only acknowledges someone else’s feelings and thoughts but also accepts them. These three ideas can be used to describe people or ideas. You confirm a person but not endorse a particular idea they believe in or you cannot confirm a person but endorse a certain idea they have. I have found it difficult to confirm people that I disagree with in the past. I have been looking back at certain situations I have been put in and realized that I have not confirmed certain people because I disagree with them on some level. I feel like moving forward I will be able to distinguish between the person and idea.