Pig Wrestling
Extract:
“Personal traits are never purely good or bad... It’s not as cut and dried as that... Any virtue that is under - or overdone can become a vice. Being ambitious, for example, is often looked upon favourably in corporate circles. However, when it’s overdone, it can be interpreted as greed, or unmitigated drive for power.
By viewing problems as the result of overdone strengths, creating change becomes less about fixing deficits, and more about redirecting energy.
Again you have to recognise the power of your language... Once we label the behaviour as being negative, it’s very difficult to see it’s positive potential.”
“Every person’s map of the world is as unique as their thumbprint. There are no two people alike. No two people who understand the same sentence the same way. So in dealing with people, try not to fit them to your concept of what they should be”. - Milton Erickson.