Courage Over Comfort: Why Difficult Conversations Matter

Many people avoid difficult conversations. Because they're difficult, unpleasant, confronting. And many people hate confrontation. 🫥

The most usual explanation you hear in these cases is that "I didn't want to bother them". A bit like it's out of respect that we don't share critical feedback.

These unsolved disagreements are the foundation of a toxic or simply problematic collaboration: if we don't want to confront someone about a specific situation, it's way easier to talk about it to someone else. This is why, with the intention of showing respect, we end up sharing this feedback with other people (in most cases, just to ventilate our frustrations)... which is probably the exact opposite of showing respect 💁🏻‍♂️

Engaging in difficult conversations is not matter of respect, it's a matter of... courage. The sooner we understand this, the better we can live up to the values we're standing for.

Courage doesn’t mean being harsh or aggressive, and respect starts with saying things to people instead of about them 😊