9. Avoid Fighting When Possible

• To avoid undesirable behavior, avoid the environments where it is most likely to occur.
• If you don't want to be lured into a tantrum by a person who gets on your nerves, avoid him.
• If you don't want to be indulge into late night snacking, don't wander into the kitchen looking...

• Conflict comes in multiple flavours. Walking down the ladder of inference can help with identifying what kind you’re having. Task conflict is disagreeing about the problem, the solution, or the decision—and that can be both necessary and productive.
• Relatio...

Known problems without readily imaginable or implementable solutions include:

• Nuclear weapons: Governments in possession of nuclear weapons are unlikely to abandon them. The technology cannot be unlearned. We can only hope that the number of nuclear warheads is reduc...