These are excerpts from the author’s book “Deep,” which contains eight of his small books published in the form of Wisdom Literature covering different aspects of life: Facing troublemakers, dealing with pain, personal financial issues, gastronomy, reading, criticizing, inspiring, and feeling always good to go.

Series 1: How to Better Manage Conflicts

Week 17: Do Happy Endings Exist in Conflicts?

• Rather than being eliminated forever, resolved conflicts are transferred to a kind of recycle bin.

• Instead of waiting for happy endings, live happily regardless of conflicts; they are an irremovable part of life.

• A conflict could have an absolutely happy ending, but that is not the point; it is about how to manage the continuous process of dealing with conflicts, especially when happy endings are the luck of your opponents.

• Quitting the job is not a bad decision, but it is better not to take it under the pressure of the existing job conflict.

• The best job opportunities do not regularly rise when you are in the middle of a conflict.

• You do not need to know more about celebrating a conflict victory, just avoid showing overwhelming joy.

• Being prepared to the worst-case scenario is the best way of facing unhappy endings.

• Happy endings exist in conflicts, but remember that your conflict’s happy ending is your opponent’s nightmare, and vice versa.

• Rather than hoping a conflict has a happy ending, work smartly and professionally to assure you keep your head up no matter the outcomes of the conflicts.

• Losing a conflict is not the end of the world; just do not forget to give this loss a unique name to remind yourself about lessons learned.

• Frustration will not help you, so instead congratulate your opponent when he wins; this presents you as a strong loser.

• Sometimes both parties feel okay to keep the conflict ongoing at a certain level just to fulfill a psychological need.

• A happy ending could happen to some or even most of your conflicts, but definitely not to all of them.

• It is not wise to feel sorry so long for an unhappy end of a conflict, considering that conflicts themselves do not reach an end in life.