Relational, not transactional. ”
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“I heard this distinction on a coaching podcast today, and it resonated with my 2023 intention to connect with courage and vulnerability. ”
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“Much of our capitalist culture runs on a transactional basis where we treat each interaction as a one-off and almost treat the other person as an adversary from whom we are trying to get a good deal. This has many benefits of course, and makes it easy for people to move and travel because we aren’t dependent on relationships to get our needs met.”
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“But we could also treat each transaction as a means to create connection or relationship. It feels “unnatural” and yet this is how humans lived for most of history, embedded in a tribe or small community. We had long lasting relationships with every person we saw, and knew that we had to treat them well because we would have to deal with them again in the future. ”
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“How would you act differently if you treated every interaction relationally, as if the other person would be part of your life going forward? ”
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