How much have you really explored your neighborhood?
We used to say it was a bit like Shakespeare – you took some key facts and then you explored your own obsessions about him through that".
The notion that shopping could be a leisure activity, something you actually enjoyed or even explored your identity through, would have been absurd.
In 2016, you published "In Other Words" (an excerpt of which ran in the magazine), which explored your relationship with the Italian language and traced your growing fluency in it.
I went to the Royal Opera House, spent time at the British Museum and the Tate, ate almost every lunch at Wagamama and explored your concert halls and learned what makes the 'London orchestra' such a one-of-a-kind in the world.
If you and your negotiating counterpart have thoroughly explored your interests and options, there's no shame in walking away from a deal that doesn't meet your interests as well as your BATNA does in fact, it's the right thing to do.
