Gary Direnfeld
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So, you know, here we are.
It's predominantly Americans on this cruise.
There's 20% Canadian.
And you can't help but bump into Americans.
And for the most part, we had very different political views.
To say the least.
Right.
But there were no blowouts.
And I'm going to attribute some of that to the folks that I was chatting with and some of that to myself.
because we all retained our composure and remained reasonable.
And if we realized we were truly on those opposite sides of the divide,
we backed off from the discussion.
And with some of those folks, we just didn't engage anymore.
Walk away.
They're what we call transferable skills.
If this works in dealing with people here, maybe it works with dealing with people there.
And those strategies typically do apply.
So I know there was this one occasion when the person figured out my left-leaning ways.
They literally turned in their seat so that they couldn't see me.
I was snubbed.