Sea of Persuasion

Every day I am in a sea of persuasion. Everywhere that I look there are always TV commercials telling me to buy something. Or when I'm walking out of SJSU, heading down the street to catch the light rail, there are tons of stores and signs that either persuades me to buy some shoes or to switch to Geiko! There are so much persuasion going on, but you just need to be asked the question for you to realize the persuasions around you. Even when I am having conversations with my friends, they are trying to get me to do buy something or to go somewhere or even to do something. I view that the media has an impact on persuading people. But usually it seems to come naturally. For example, the weatherman! They can simply give you a temperature and tell you that it's going to rain. People will automatically know to carry their umbrellas the next day. As for public speaking, I can think of school events that try to get us to either join a club, or to not smoke and what not. I was in a program which went around persuading people too. We did skits of real life scenarios to teach Junior High students how to say no to drugs and pure pressure.
As your own being and caring for what's good for you is how you can more of a critical consumer. Obviously, there will always be something that you don't favor so you would go against it.