An earlier political maverick, Eugene McCarthy, once remarked, "Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important."

I'm clearly dumb enough, but I think I still need to figure out how the game works.

See, when I disagree with someone — say, my boss, for example — I try to work it out. We could very well end up at an impasse, but, more often than not, we manage to hammer out a compromise. (Or I lose.)

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