STOP FIGHTING
1 LEARN HOW TO SEE THINGS MORE CLEARLY
‘We don’t have a choice about the circumstances that we are born into, but each of us has a say in the way we interpret life and how we describe it,’ says Rob Kendall in his book, Blamestorming: Why Conversations Go Wrong And How To Fix Them (Watkins Media, £8.99). ‘Our thinking tends to be negatively biased and we often focus on what’s wrong, rather than what’s right. It’s actually a highly effective survival mechanism that we carry with us from the distant past, to make sure we live to see another day.’ But it can be easy to create a story and become out of kilter with the reality of the situation.