A few weeks before I spoke about how to learn to accept criticism. I spoke with a few friends about this topic and most of them argued they’d have not only problems with the criticism itself but would bild up inner conflicts with themselves and the people giving the criticism. Matching this topic I just found an article in Scott Youngs blog about 7 strategies on how to handle conflicts. Scotts seven strategies are:
- Know How holds the power
- Become the meditator
- Don’t allow passion to drown reason
- Know whether the conflict is personal
- Appeal to selfishness
- Aplogizing isn’t losing
- You can’t control both sides
Scott gives detailed explainations to all seven strategies and concludes with the fact that conflict are of course part of your life. Therefore: Avoidance and engagement are both poor strategies for managing conflict. Life is filled with conflicts that you will need to move past. Avoiding all of them would be neglecting your duty to yourself and others.