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The importance of compromise in life
Compromise is a vital skill for everyone’s lives. While being able to compromise is often seen as a single skill. It is actually made up of many small skills. Lets go over 3 of those skills to find ways we can learn how to improve our ability to compromise without sacrificing what we want in life.
- Prioritization
Compromise is all about give and take. With that in mind being able to determine what are the most important things to take and not give up is important. Compromise isn’t possible if you refuse to give anything and only take. So being able learn how to prioritize is a vital skill. Depending on the context of the situation what you prioritize may be different. For example if you were buying a new car to commute to work, you would want a high miles per gallon and you may not be focused on having the most aesthetic appearance for your car. However if you are in a position where your image matters in a professional sense such as a real estate agent where the car is part of your brand, then the appearance matters as much or more than other factors. Being able to lean into and understand context is what makes prioritization possible.
2.Emotional Intelligence
Any time you are dealing with other people emotional intelligence will come into play. Compromising is no different. When you are emotionally intelligent you can understand yours and the other parties emotions. Being able to be emotionally intelligent can help you with how you respond to adversity when things don’t go your way or to help you navigate the things others are saying. Compromising itself can be difficult and there may be times someone will say hurtful things to egg you on. But having emotional intelligence won’t make those situations hurt you less. It just makes it easier to understand, maybe the person is dealing with a situation in their personal life, but they let it spill over. If you know that piece of information or can infer it, it affects how you go forward. Emotional intelligence will also help you understand what parts of a compromise you can give up to help the other person, maybe giving up a small piece helps you get more later.
3. Communication
Communication is one of the biggest parts of compromise. Communication involves everything from what you say…
