Comments on: How we get in each other’s way without even knowing it https://www.embracepossibility.com/blog/getting-in-each-others-way/ Practical Resource to Help You Reach Your Full Potential Tue, 09 Jan 2024 23:14:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: Robert Chen https://www.embracepossibility.com/blog/getting-in-each-others-way/#comment-19277 Sat, 16 Jan 2021 15:16:37 +0000 https://www.embracepossibility.com/?p=12045#comment-19277 In reply to Robert Edelmann.

Great point Robert on zooming out and seeing it from a more detached point of view!

]]> By: Robert Edelmann https://www.embracepossibility.com/blog/getting-in-each-others-way/#comment-19275 Sat, 16 Jan 2021 14:40:12 +0000 https://www.embracepossibility.com/?p=12045#comment-19275 Something that’s helped me a lot with this type of thinking is pausing for a moment and trying to “zoom out” on the situation and see it in the third person. What I almost always see is a situation like what you described with the kitchen chair and the charger where two people have parallel goals that can both be met with a strategic decision.

Generally, this strategic decision is to change whatever it is about the environment or scenario that causes the conflict in the first place. That’s usually what causes two people with parallel goals to come into any type of conflict to begin with since their goals wouldn’t otherwise conflict with each other.

And as I’m sure you know, kids are great at bringing this out when they have goals that conflict with what the adults want.

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