People who can't Communicate think everything is an Argument, and people who lack Accountability think everything is an Attack.
Info & reflection: Two mirror-image misreadings. People who can't communicate read every clarification as a fight; people who don't take responsibility read every piece of feedback as an attack. Both come from the same inability: telling the content of the conversation apart from your own personal worth.
Related in anthology
- Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. — Same principle from another tradition: don't take personally what is being communicated.