All Human Relationships Are Ultimately About Power Dynamics: It’s Either One Wind Overwhelming the Other or Vice Versa
You use the chips you have to try to change the other party’s decision—that’s interpersonal relationships.
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If you know in advance what someone will base their judgment on, and you can steer them like leading an ox, that's called expectation management.
Expectation management is that useful. The earlier you accept it, the earlier you benefit. The later you accept it, the longer you'll keep getting battered by society.
所谓 “hard” means he has raised the cost of continuing your attack this time; “horizontal” means he has long-term increased the cost of your continuing your attack; and “desperate” means he has made you realize that you can’t win—either you surrender halfway or it’s a lose-lose, a deadlock.