The document contrasts different approaches to working with others that can lead to different outcomes. It discusses being broad-minded versus trivial, seeing things from a team perspective versus individually, focusing on commonalities versus differences, being sympathetic versus unsympathetic, and other pairs of approaches. The document argues that taking a cooperative, team-oriented approach that considers others' concerns leads to better societal outcomes, while an individualistic approach focused on self-interests can result in disunity and failure.

1. Paul Yang
The lessons of tango

2. Having a broad vision,
or being trivial,
the results are different.

3. Seeing things from the vantage
point of the team,
or seeing things from the
perspective of the individual,
the results are different.

4. Zooming out to see yourself as a
part of the whole,
or zooming in to see yourself as
everything,
the results are different.

5. Focusing on what’s in
common,
or focusing on the difference,
the results are different.

6. Sympathetic,
or unsympathetic,
the results are different.

7. Taking the concerns of others into
account,
or rejecting opposite views,
the results are different.

8. Being agreeable,
or being disagreeable,
the results are different.

9. Moderate and balanced,
or rabid and extremist,
the results are different.

10. Being willing to meet in the
middle,
or insisting on having one’s
own way,
the results are different.

11. Building bridges,
or building walls,
the results are different.

12. Cooperative,
or competitive,
the results are different.

13. Team spirit,
or individuality,
the results are different.

14. Working for the common
cause,
or working for self-interests or
group interests,
the results are different.

15. Striving to achieve harmony,
or striving to win competition,
the results are different.

16. The former are magnanimous and
patriotic.
The latter are petty and self-centric.

17. The former, which are germane
to tango,
lead to a better society.

18. The latter, pertinent to
individualism,
lead to dissension, disunity and
failure as a nation.

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