Whether in professional life or personal life we come across different viewpoints than ours. So when a decision needs to be made we will try to prove that our viewpoint is right. And we can argue for hours about that and sometimes create lot of animosity and bad blood in the relationship. Finally a decision will be made in some basis, it could be in favour of your view point or the other’s but the relationship might be never the same or in not much serious situations the ‘looser’ will feel at least bad that his/her view point didn’t go through.
But have you ever experienced the power of agreeing to disagree? The moment you feel that this conversation and arguments are not going anywhere and anyway at the end the other person will make the decision in favour of his /her view point, you could let it go by telling “OK in this case I agree to disagree.” It normally catches the other person off guard as s/he expects you to come with counter arguments. Then that person stops and thinks for a moment and try to look through your eyes, at your view point. At that point s/he might even doubt a little bit her/his viewpoint. Believe me when I say that things could change in amazing ways. If your view point was the most valid and sensible one, the final decision can go in favour of your viewpoint or you will work out a compromise. Most importantly no one will feel ‘belittle’ nor ‘rejected’. What a wonderful feeling?
As Wayne Dyre once said “Choose to be kind rather than be right”. In my opinion agreeing to disagree is one way of doing that.
Have a blessed day!