Welcome back to “Irresistible Communication”.

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Two minutes, one insight

on how to find better

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words

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Michael: You're in a meeting.

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The conversation circles

back again and again.

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The same arguments keep getting made.

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The same concerns keep getting raised.

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And no one, except you, seems to notice.

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In your head you think: We're stuck.

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Why can't people just

stop repeating themselves?

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It feels like failure.

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As if people don't get it.

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Or worse...

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As if they're blocking you on purpose.

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But here's what's really going on.

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Groups often get stuck not

because the idea is unclear,

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but because the stakes are high.

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forward means someone takes a risk,

someone loses control, someone

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exposes themselves to blame.

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And so the safe move is no

move, silence, circling, delay.

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That’s not sabotage, that’s human.

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We all do it when uncertainty

feels bigger than clarity.

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Pushing harder now rarely works.

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It's like a knot.

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The more you argue, the more each

side pulls, the tighter it gets.

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But how do you get unstuck?

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Well, not by adding more force,

but by investigating the knot.

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In other words, stop seeing In

stuckness as an enemy to defeat

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and start seeing it as a signal.

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A signal that something underneath hasn't

been resolved, hasn't been spoken yet.

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Maybe it's fear, maybe it's

doubt or just exhaustion.

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But once you see it that

way, the work isn't to break

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through with sharper arguments.

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The work is to create space

for what hasn't been voiced.

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To let people bring the

unspoken into the open.

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That means that getting unstuck is rarely

about pushing harder, but about looking

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for and listening to what's in the way.

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Keep lighting the path.