High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out Ben Fountain A Wind in the Door

A Wind in the Door

He was sitting right across the table

to the office that had once seemed his for the taking

thinks she needs a holiday attitude adjustment

The evil sorceress is back with another sleeping curse for the last heir to the Golden Court

High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out Ben Fountain A Wind in the DoorWhen we are baffled by the insanity of the other sidein our politics, at work, or at homeits because we arent seeing how the conflict itself has taken over. Thats what high conflict does. Its the invisible hand of our time. And its different from the useful friction of healthy conflict. Thats good conflict, and its a necessary force that pushes us to be better people. High conflict is what happens when discord distills into a good versus evil kind of