Update

Your willingness to evolve, learn, and install new ways of thinking — even when the current version feels comfortable.

Alison Wood Brooks and Letting Go of the Goal to Persuade

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Update is about replacing an old operating logic with a better one — even when the old version feels right. Alison Wood Brooks is describing exactly that: decades of negotiation wisdom said be strong and persuasive, and she's installing a direct update to that logic. The new version says suspend the persuasion instinct entirely and lead with learning. That's a genuine overwrite of a deeply held belief about how conflict works.