From the course: Negotiating the Nonnegotiable (Blinkist Summary)

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Achieve reconciliation by reconfiguring your relationship

Achieve reconciliation by reconfiguring your relationship

From the course: Negotiating the Nonnegotiable (Blinkist Summary)

Achieve reconciliation by reconfiguring your relationship

- Blink number eight, achieve reconciliation by reconfiguring your relationship. There may be times when you think a conflict seemingly has no solution, but this is probably because you haven't yet shifted your perspective and in doing so have not reconfigured your relationship to your adversary. The first step in this process is to identify the identity under threat. Now is the time to take on the mythos of identity, we learned about earlier. Consider a real life situation. Linda and Josh are a couple. Linda who's Protestant, wanted a Christmas tree. Josh, however, was averse to the idea because he's Jewish. In this case, the Christmas tree is actually a symbol for something deeper. When Linda was young, her mother died and from then on, her father would always put up a tree for her. For Linda, it represented her father's love. Meanwhile, for Josh, it felt like a betrayal of his family values. The second step is to…

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