by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
When people resist me, they are telling me something. Am I listening?<\/strong><\/p>\n Dale Emery is an acquaintance of mine. I owe the topic of this blog post to him. See here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n When people resist me, they are telling me something. That something is valuable information. I can ignore the information or use it. I can be ignorant or informed.<\/p>\n Why would I choose to be ignorant?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Oooops, there is information there as well. Sometimes I do choose to be ignorant. I don’t want to know (1) that other people disagree with me and (2) there is a reason why other people disagree with me. I want to wander down the road believing I am right and there is no other way but mine. Oh foolish me.<\/p>\n Back to the topic at hand. People resist me for a reason. There is something they value that my direction is threatening or lessening. What is that? Why is that important to them? What can I learn from that? How can I combine what I wish with what they value?<\/p>\n Those are a few valuable questions that I can ask. If I can find the answers, well, I would be more knowledgeable and maybe improve my little corner of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips When people resist me, they are telling me something. Am I listening? Dale Emery is an acquaintance of mine. I owe the topic of this blog post to him. See here and here. When people resist me, they are telling me something. That something is valuable information. I can ignore the information […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","tag-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}