World Peace from the Workplace: Teaching and Using the Opposite ApproachTM for Enhanced Personal Productivity (and Happiness)
Opposite ApproachTM is a philosophical-scientific way to achieve world and personal peace and prosperity using the power of opposites.
There is no better place to teach opposite realities, or the principles for achieving world peace, than the organizational setting. Our workplaces are multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, and multi-ideal, so world peace exists at present in all organizations, everywhere.
Opposite ApproachTM provides a framework and methodology for highlighting likenesses and integrating differences to achieve goals and resolve conflicts for maximized productive thinking in organizational entities.
The framework integrates science, psychology and philosophy, using the principle of Conservation of the Circle, or the basic scientific idea (reality) that all things are circles and, therefore, pairs of pairs, and-or opposites.
Understanding and Accepting Conflict
Arguments, or opposite points of view, at the heart of all conflict, are always the diameters of circles. On a circle, all points of view are the same point of view from an alternate perspective. Integrating alternative perspectives is the most important priority and methodology for achieving goals.
There is nothing more important in any organizational setting than an 'understanding' of conflict (the circle). An understanding of, and personal wisdom about, conflict makes all people more productive. These principals, or ideas, allow all of us, in organizational settings everywhere, to participate more fully to maximize productivity and personal usefulness (happiness):
Conservation of the Circle - the circle preserves itself by presenting in all entities as two (at least) opposing points of view. We cannot get away from or eliminate the 'conflict.' We can use conflict to improve performance, and personal productivity overall.
Absolute Intelligence - because the circle is the universal, unifying dynamic, all entities share the same perspective-driven intelligence. We are all driven to tell each other the 'what we know.' We do this to protect each other, always, from, and with, at least, two opposing points of view. All views are necessary and valid.
Opposite ApproachTM - once we recognize and accept the circle's ubiquitous presence, we can put our minds around the idea that two opposing ideas can be correct at the same time. We can choose how to view any situation using our own power of attention. We cannot force any other entity to think the way we do, but we can learn how to maximize our thinking for the best personal and professional outcome.
If two opposing ideas are correct, it is perfectly okay to argue, as long as we understand no one argument, or point of view, is ever ALWAYS correct.
I can be right, and so can you, and neither one of us has to be 'wrong,' in order for the other one to be 'right.'
More important, both of us, together, see a whole picture; useful, and necessary, for producing anything meaningful or sustainable.
As we listen more closely to an opposing view, we begin to understand it holds information that we do not currently have.
All of us have valid ideas that must be shared to ensure our survival and reproduction (the ideas, themselves, are also struggling to survive and reproduce; we are their 'carriers.')
No ideas are every destroyed (forever); likewise, no entity is every destroyed (forever). All entities grow into new entities; and all entities are connected via the circle.
Sometimes is Always
The key to productivity, personal and universal, is understanding, and accepting, the 'sometimes' nature (and reality) of all things.
Sometimes can be always in our minds; this is totally up to us (one person can't tell another how to think). We cannot be in any other entity's universe completely, or forever; and the opposite of this is also true.
All people understand the sometimes-nature of all things, naturally, sometimes.
Conservation of the Circle is the basis for reality.
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