Complementarity

"Hearts can and want to connect. Brains can and want to help, but like kids from uncordially divorced parents: they are torn. They were told hearts are not safe compasses.

Hearts are truth seekers. Indeed, not the most short-term risk-averse.

The best way for one heart to reduce risk is to team up with complementary hearts.

Complementarity implies differences, in perspectives and functioning, which often trigger conflicts in teams' role delineation processes.

In the short term, conflicts feel riskier. They make us feel like we are getting more dangerously vulnerable than ever, rather than stronger together.

In the long term, the picture looks very, very different.”

This was meant to be the introduction to an article I just submitted, but in the end it didn't fit.

In the meantime, I have been shown again how world-expanding unexpected encounters with complementary hearts can be.

So I wanted to wish you all many of them in this gorgeous season!

And to thank the brave brains that help hearts unconditionally, ready to weather the havoc together.