Getting creative and loving the unlovable!

What if you learned to love the things that you always thought were unlovable?

Just got off the phone with a very successful and capable advocate lawyer.

She said to me this profession is not easy. I’m sure it’s not!

She also said that the law she practices in her country is based on counterarguments.

Her work is all about defending her clients against any counterargument that the opposition will come up with.

That sounds stressful at first sight, doesn’t it?

You want to protect your clients and yourself against these counterarguments.

An advocate’s success, reputation, and career all seem to be perfectly correlated with fighting back counterarguments.

But, think about it.

What if one managed to love a counterargument when they were served one?

What if one saw the counterargument as a way to come up with a creative counterargument themselves?

What if a counterargument were always the way to the truth and a healthy system of justice?

What if one got inspired and loved the person who comes up with a strong counterargument?

We stayed a little longer at that last question.

Can someone “love” the advocate of the opposition?

My knowledge in law is so little. Excuse me for my ignorance and, please, if you know more help me see clearly.

The person who comes up with a counterargument is another person who’s trying to do their job as well as they can. They are like you!

But the more I’m thinking about it, the more I feel this goes further than law!

When you get to love the counterarguments of the opposition, you get to love the game, you’re in flow, you’re in love with the process.

There is no ego, there is no expectation.

This is the question that comes to mind now:

Can you get inspired by what you thought was your enemy?

Tell me what you hear.

With love,

Angelos