Example Of Counter Argument

The most notable counter argument is the one at 15 minutes 35 seconds. The counter argument is, faking something is like feeling like a fraud, because it isn’t the real feeling. They are implying that faking confidence with body poses isn’t actually being truly confident. It’s brought up at the very end, but with the examples the speaker has already given us, there is already proof enough that this argument has been very properly refuted against. If body poses don’t actually make someone confident, then why are testosterone levels, the hormone that makes someone act confident, higher in someone that’s body implies that they're confident than someone who’s been acting like they aren’t? This is using the speaker's previous arguments to refute this argument, but the refutation she uses …show more content…
She states that when she was in an accident that knocked her IQ down, many people told her she couldn’t go to university and follow her dreams. She however, got accepted to university and continued studying and was so good at it she got into Harvard. Throughout the entire time, however, she still felt unwelcomed because she wasn’t really a part of this, because unlike everyone else who had support from peers, she went against what everyone said and went to school. She said that she’s had this nagging feeling the entire time, until once when she noticed one of her students was always closed off and non respondent. She asked the student why she was like that, and the student answered that she didn’t belong here. That was when the speaker realized that anyone who was even in the position they’re in isn’t faking it. If the girl was in class, than that meant she was in class, it was such a silly thing to even think they didn’t belong, when, why else was she doing in that class? This proves the counter argument, because it shows that when you’re even just pretending to do something, you have been really doing it the entire