sea of persuasion

So, I noticed, I am always immersed in a sea of persuasion. Im always being persuade to do something 24/7 and not really noticing it until now. For example, my friends always persuade me to go out to eat with them when I don’t really want to. They will tell me reasons that aren’t even relevant to eating to persuade me and it works. Another example would be those online advertisements where your forced to play some sort of game to win a prize. Even when im doing something important I am always persuaded into playing the game. So what I think I can do to become a more critical consumer or persuasive messages is understand what the situation is better. Since I am persuaded into a lot of things all the time, i think to persuade someone is to get deep into their skin and find that flip that switch so that person can understand what your talking about. I guess a lot of us are immersed in a sea of persuasion and don’t even know it.