Holocron 09: Academics & Training- Conflict
I mention conflict often, and I can be seen calling some struggles productive conflicts while I am also known to say that other struglles are unproductive conflicts. If you wonder how the difference may be seen, perhaps you should properly dedicate yourself to the path you walk…but for those who don’t know how struggles differ from productive to unproductive, allow me to offer my perspective…
In all honesty, both types of conflicts are simple to determine as costly or beneficial. Productive conflict is a conflict you can genuinely learn from, a struggle that offers knowledge and experience. Proper debates are excellent examples of this, but you must remain open-minded or a debate quickly degenerates into an argument. An argument is an example of unproductive conflict…some may wonder what makes arguing different from debating, and that too is simple: Debating involves thought out points being made and offered for scrutiny between two or more parties, proper debating is a method of learning from each other in a systematic and civilized manner, and it brings all involved closer toa possible truth pertaining to the subject of examination. Arguing is best described as a situation in which two or more people narrow mindedly try to convince each other that their views are correct, and that any other views are wrong; it is a pointless, costly struggle that only grants you a possible enemy. Hopefully this illustrates the two types of conflict I am aware of, if not…my apologies in advance.