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Sometimes, in conversation, what is ‘obvious’ isn’t obvious at all. A source of difficulty can be the unchecked assumptions that each of you holds. It pays to slow down and find out what's driving each of you to understand the hidden differences.
Curious expression may hold truth, so don't reject something just because you don't understand it.
It's the end of the week and so time for a little light relief.
Fighting talk doesn't win battles, and most fights can be avoided. But in a world where understanding and diplomacy are seen as 'backing down' , what hope is there for managing stress in a mature and responsible way? If we see stress as "the new enemy", there's little hope for détente.
Even though we don't realise it when we say we know what someone thinks about something, we are guessing. Even mind-reading – in a fairground or on stage – is trickery. Yet we often allow our own thoughts and behaviour to be goverened by what we claim someone else will think. Maybe it's time to review what we 'know'.
Don't get to hung up on whether something 'works' or not, because it may still be effective. Mechanical things work or don't work, but not everything is mechanical, and scientific evaluation is not equally useful in all cases.
Quality time is the product of leisure time. It's not ...
There's a point in an argument at which the arguers lose sight of what the original dispute was about. From then on it is what I call a meta-argument; and argument about an argument, rather than a fight or dispute about whatever the difference was that caused it.
Who do you believe? I suppose it depends on who you trust. Sometimes though it is a case of the loudest voice being the most persuasive, so it's handy to know where the volume control is. There's also an on-off switch.
We all need to categorise people sometimes, it helps us think and navigate in our lives, but labels are for labellers. Things won't object to being labelled, but people should. When labels stick they can be a nuisance, and if I choose to wear a label somebody else has applied to me it probably won't reflect whom I am.
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