All of us experience misunderstandings, and we leapfrog to the negative, cultural use of the word that refers to a “quarrel or disagreement”. We go to the outcome of a misunderstanding without thinking deeper about how the misunderstanding came about. Before the quarrel, there was the actual lack of mutual understanding itself. But what if we move beyond the negative and see the good coming out of misunderstandings?

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