If you can hold off on letting your anger out and
then have a productive conversation later, everyone is much better off.
Not exact matches
If you keep the focus on what their comments do to you rather than trying to convince them that they're wrong or out of line,
then you're likely to
have a more
productive conversation.
thanks also for your kind comments on the way i posted on skepticalscience and it
has always been my contention that if i'm talking to someone who
has the intent of understanding the science (like i do) and not concealing a political agenda
then a
productive conversation can be
had.
If you're lucky, there's another person there who
has tried it and maybe is even billing flat fees and
then you can
have maybe a drink with them later and
have a
productive conversation but that automatic defensiveness that that's not how we do it, it won't work, is one of the most toxic things that I see and it doesn't mean that you
have to adopt everything but I feel like a willingness to engage with new ideas or even just other ideas is probably the one biggest most important thing that lawyers can do and learn how to test those ideas, bounce them off of people who will listen and engage with them too.
Then, when they started talking about their problems again, their heart rates is lower, they are able to
have a real
conversation, and their whole discussion starts to actually get more positive and
productive.