Jay Rothman’s analysis emphasizes Buber’s idea that conflict arises from the difficulty of saying what we mean and doing what we say. Rothman offers an alternative approach, where we are each responsible for asking, what does this conflict have to do with me? Often, it is difficult to turn inward with enough scrutiny. Without this self-knowledge, we cannot reap the benefits of deep discovery — the kind of discovery that would allow us to say what we mean and then to do what we say.
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