This will never be more important to remember when in moments of civil conflict. Respect is always part of the process of negotiation, reconciliation, and ally building. By treating a person with respect you build trust, empathy, and you enable a willingness on their part to join you in your cause, and make it their own.
Excitement will only ever be valuable when you can compare it to it absence. In boredom you learn to stretch and create. Your mind will wonder and discover solutions to problems you’ve long since abandoned solving.
Volume is not intrinsically linked to quality. An ounce of gold is worth more than a pound of dirt.
This will never be more important to remember when in moments of civil conflict. Respect is always part of the process of negotiation, reconciliation, and ally building. By treating a person with respect you build trust, empathy, and you enable a willingness on their part to join you in your cause, and make it their own.
This is not an issue of cool or not, this is an issue of respecting someone’s single most finite and valuable resource: their time.
In training yourself to make the right decision all the time, it becomes easier to make the right choice when you have little time to decide.
Delivering what you say you will deliver builds trust and respect. Both of which will help you keep friends when the time comes that you can’t deliver.
No matter the score, there is always a chance for a comeback. If you’re losing by 50 points, that means scoring 50 is possible.