Ray Dalio

And maybe, like, let's mutually agree on a mediator.

Like, we both agree that that person, you know, somebody we can trust and do through.

Okay, that's a good step.

Then as you're doing that, carrying that through, you can also say, are you taking in the other person's thinking and replying to that, or are you just blocking?

And there are techniques that you can do to demonstrate you've taken it in,

Okay, like repeat the other's point and so on.

And then reply to the other's point.

And then do certain things like not interrupt.

In other words, I have a rule.

I call it the two-minute rule.

Somebody says, okay, can you give me the two-minute rule?

That means for the next two minutes, I can speak uninterruptedly.

So there are techniques that you can use to first understand that it's not a big fight, that there's protocols.

Okay, then how do you do that in a hierarchy?

Okay, there are different ways you can do that in a hierarchy.

But anyway, there are many of them.

And, you know, we're not going to have the time to go through them.

But they're outlined in, you know, my book, Principles, Life and Work.

They're in the work principles part of it.

I just want to emphasize though, as you're doing that,