Once we started learning about negotiation in AOD, I adopted a new perspective in my daily life. I started looking at situations differently and with a newly gained understanding of negotiation.

In many situations, Ian and I argue quite often. One situation that gets us quarreling nearly every day is the control over the temperature in the car. Ian likes it hot. I like it cold. That's how it is every morning.

The day starts by the heat being all the way on to warm the car up. Once we start driving a ways, I turn it to 3/4 cold. Ian then turns it to 1/4 hot and I turn it to the exact middle and he turns it back to about 1/8 hot.

That's when I get really mad and yell, "Can't you just meet me in the middle?"

Obviously, this would be the best idea, but even if I came up with the idea, I wasn't doing it in the best way. Yelling is never a good idea in a negotiation I learned. Neither is the explicit expression of anger. Therefore, to finally solve this problem, it would require me to approach Ian in a more acceptable manner and attempt to reach a mutual decision.

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