It seems to me that many people no longer understand what negotiation truly means.
They’ve been screaming “their truth” for so long, they’ve mistaken volume for value, believing compromise is betrayal and that listening is weakness.
But negotiation isn’t about domination or submission. It’s the art of finding ground, common or otherwise, between conviction and consideration.
Somewhere along the way, the goal stopped being resolution and became validation.
And that’s not a negotiation. That’s a tantrum.
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