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Difficult Conversations.

There are tons of books on difficult conversations. People spend weeks, months, years avoiding them.

Difficult conversations get our culture stuck or actually the fear of difficult conversations.

And so we keep a bully on our payroll because we don't want to have a difficult

conversation with them.

So we avoid talking about a living will or the changes in our

climate because we don't want to have a difficult conversation. What makes it a difficult conversation anyway. I think most people would agree that if there is a

fire in your house and everyone's asleep, it is not a difficult conversation to run around waking

everybody up to get the hell out of the house. So what makes something difficult? I want to

argue that a difficult conversation is difficult because we want two things, not one thing. If all we want is one thing, everyone get up and get out of the house. It's not difficult because it's

direct. It is obvious what we should do. It's only difficult if we want two things. We want someone to change and we want them to like it.

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