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When you think negotiation, you many times think of the courtroom or even the Middle East crisis. The thing is, your daily life involves a bit of negotiation. As a post-grad wanderer you are stuck negotiating for jobs, fruit, friends, relationships, and your own sanity. You spent all this time getting to know yourself, so be a bit selfish. Compromise doesn’t mean that you don’t get what you want, just that everyone involved gets something. You might think that it’s a matter of dividing up a pie when in fact you are each looking at different pies altogether. Take a moment, a breather, and remember that you and the bed, the day’s outfit, or the traffic will figure something out. Maybe what isn’t working is actually providing you with an opportunity, you just have to look at it from the un-tucked shirt’s point of view.
There are a few other things to keep in mind when negotiating. This is a bit of a review and summary of a book I recently enjoyed.
