Tip-Off #29 - The trouble with small differences.

“It is precisely the minor differences in people who are otherwise alike that form the basis of feelings of strangeness and hostility between them.” - Freud

I once saw a greeting card depicting hundreds of penguins indistinguishable from each other. One of them is crying out, "I've got to be me!"

What we have in common may be more important than what we have in conflict. But "I'm unique – and you are, too." Our identity is difference. Disagreement, often conflict is inevitable.

Dissension often occurs among t…