Dinner Menu:
- Spaghetti Bolognese
- Salade verte
- Yaourt de brebis avec banane et myrtilles
Yesterday Fianna and I went to the cinema on the Champs Elysée where we saw a nice French film Le Grand Bain. The story is about a team of depressed unsuccessful middle aged men who find redemption through an unlikely team sport. The film is interesting in its depiction of the different the men deal with their issues, but as it is based on a competition it made me think about winning. The problem with winning is that it is always at someone else's expense. One of the most important things I used to teach in my negotiating training course is that negotiation is not about winning it is about creating value. If we want to change the values of our society from adversarial to collaborative we need to rethink our approach to education. I remember playing Monopoly as a child and feeling ambivalent about winning because I would feel bad for the ones who were losing (After a while I did work out that feeling sorry for the losers to the point of helping them out was actually not a good strategy). Maybe we should change the rules so that winning at monopoly is when all the players have the property and house they want.
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