Week 5; Post 1

1.     After reading Chapter 4 in its entirety, answer the following question:  How hard is it for you to stop a conflict?  If you find it easy to not respond automatically, what advice can you give others who have trouble with this step?  Whether you find this step difficult or not, what ways do you prefer if you try to take a "time out"?

When it comes to stopping conflict it is hard to say...Honestly, all conflicts are different and the differences decide how easy or hard it is to stop a conflict. If speaking in general, I think that it is not too difficult for me to stop conflict. I typically respond automatically and am more than happy to do so. Any advice I give to someone would be again, handled in a case by case basis depending on the situation. Typically though, my advice would be to not make rash decisions. It is always important to think about things before you make a decision or an action. Most of all, don’t let your emotions get the best of you. A lot of people let their emotions fuel a conflict and they do not always stop and think before they communicate. Sometimes people need to take a time out and step away from the situation for an amount of time. For me, I recap. I will recap the entire conflict and analyze each part of it with whoever I am having the conflict with. This allows us both to talk about it rather than argue.