Creative Conflict

Conflict is something that I find happens just about daily in my life. Weather it is at school, with friends, or at home, I find that by taking these conflicts and turing them into creative conflict can only help the situation. I myself am the type of person who simply tries to avoid conflict. I see it as a waste of time because in most cases the conflict simply will cause more future problems. That is why I find trying to turn conflict into creative conflict is always the best. One example at school Is when I would have long in detail conversations with some of the extremly christian kids at our school. I would find that while I completely disagree with them in every way there is no reason to try and make the situation an unpleasent one. I simply go into the conversations in a way in which I will try to better understand the other person then trying to make them think my way. I find that in situation like these, people are never truly willing to change. They simply stick to their own beliefs and won't take any other beliefs into consideration at all. This type of thinking is one in which they are not really having a creative conflict. I find that I am able to go in a try and simply get something out of these heated discussions but that the christain kids only seem to ever believe nothing but there way is ever right.

Active Listening

Active Listening is one thing that for me has always been hard to do. I remember a few years ago when I could barely even listen to people at all. As the years have progressed since then however I can see where I have improved and see how being an active listener can only make everything easier to understand. Currently in school I am able to do this. I am always actively listening to teachers when ever they are talking I myself find that taking notes is not the best method for me but to instead just listen the whole time and I will get all of the information. Other then in school actively listening can make it so that when you communicate with friends and family you can better understand what they are saying and be able to engage more fully into the conversation that is taking place. One example of this is when I was talking to one of my friends about their beliefs. They just hapened to be christian and of course I did not agrre with him at all. But I found that by just listening intently to what he was saying made it so that I understood where he was comming from better and more fully.