The expression “offer the other cheek” has always intrigued me. Analyzing the various situations in which a meeting, a difficult meeting, was successful, I found that there was a pattern. The first reaction was to try to control the anger, the anguish, that is, to lower, to zero the uncontrolling emotions, negative emotions, and to reach a neutral stage that would allow us to move on to a moment of favorable, positive emotions. The key point of the reversal was not to focus the blame, not to look for the culprit, and to offer a way out of the situation. Then there was the pattern, seeing the facts, getting out of blame, focusing on the solution. So it was to analyze what happened, and move as quickly as possible in search of the result. The cycle has shown that there is a transition point in it that if not surpassed, the situation will not resolve, slip or worsen. If something new is not offered that breaks the sequence, turns the emotions on the positive side and makes everyone look a...