Email: I lose out in team conversations. Feel defensive. (India)
Happens. As a natural reflex feel defensive around different ideas, styles or views.
Each philosophy or perspective is unique with pros and cons, nothing’s perfect.
Spending time with individuals from different walks of life or backgrounds only expands our vision with insights into innovative or traditional thought patterns.
Differences of opinion are quite helpful and healthy, not a challenges to our personal values, ways of working or beliefs. We can engage in fun, meaningful conversations.
Our understanding of diversity makes us more expansive, creative, flexible.
Love to participate in friendly debates. These aren’t aimed at convincing us to change but to better understand varied cultural, social or intellectual positions.
Suspicions give way to openness and curiosity. Occasional fair and balanced blending of perspectives brings unexpected inventions, positive resolutions or evolutions.
We see things through the lens of our experiences, can be quite limiting. When we look from a big picture holistic framework, there’s validity in almost each idea.
Truth has many forms.