What Is Compromise?
Be it in business, work, or your relationships. You compromise. Due dates. Overtime. Working on the holiday. Or not bringing that old funky couch with you when you move in with your partner. How you parent. How you share life and space with someone. It’s a compromise.
Compromise is not bending to what is happening. Or meeting in the middle, as the expression goes. It’s not just saying yes. It’s not doing what your boss or partner say or ask. Compromise is about both sides walking away from the scenario, content and happy with the outcome. Maybe not fully happy, because everyone can’t be happy all the time. But happy enough to move on. So maybe you can work a few hours overtime, just not the whole day. Maybe you can bring that funky chair with you, but just not in the living room. For the kids, we can give them 30 more minutes not one hour.
To compromise its less about making everyone happy. But as Mark Manson explains it, “it’s about making everyone less miserable.”
That’s the goal. Make all parties involved less miserable and closer to contentment with the outcome.
Compromising is not abandoning who you are and what you believe in. But, keeping an open mind to the beliefs of others.
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Thought Provoking Questions : How do you define compromise?
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