Ch 6. #3

The concept I wanted to talk about is cooperation, and the way its stated in the book, it to almost forget the outcome of things, but more so the interpersonal relationship. In simple terms, what is to be done here is you need to work together and not battle to cause more of a conflict. I was to focus on win-win outcomes, and how they can be achieved and my personal experience. As in almost all my blogs I talk about being in a home with 2 sisters and much conflict occuring. One time in particular, all three of us were bumping heads about something very simple, watching tv. And we couldn't all come to agree on a mutual channel that we could all watch. My mom took it into her own hands and turned off the tv and said, "If you three cant cooperate, then no one is going to watch tv, so figure it out." And we did because the risk was higher to not watch tv and be bored, rather than figuring it out. Basically we can to the conclusion that we should just switch channels after every show to satisfy each other, and in this case we had a win-win-win. We looked at the problem, dealt with it in a calm matter, and moved on. But the key here is we did find a way to cooperate with each other, it made things easier in the future.