Navigating Conflict Through Feel
Before you start to think that this is just a lawyer-problem, I ask you to think about how these mental models show up in your own daily life. How many of you–no matter how deep in connection with someone you might be–lose that connection when conflict comes along? How many of you know that fun-house mirror experience where that person suddenly becomes foreign and strange, the “other” who “did” something to you? You forget how or why you ever trusted them. In that moment, you stop relating to them as a live human being, and start relating to the mental model.…