Avoid Conflict Much?

Are you, like me, trying to avoid conflict as much as possible?

Avoid Conflict Much?
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I read this quote today and it really hit me. Hard.

"If you avoid conflict to keep peace, you start a war inside yourself"

I recently asked friends (PS and AdC) to take some personality tests (which I retook). My results came out exactly like they did years ago when I took it.

While the majority of the personality descriptions fit me, it wasn't all accurate.

I took another type of test today, and boy was it accurate.

I was dubbed as a Peacemaker, one of the 9 personality types from that model.

Conflict avoidance is something I've been aware of I gravitate towards for a while now. But it's also something I have been working on improving lately also.

After reading that quote above, and the results from the new personality test I took, it's clearer that by virtues -if left to run wild- can lead to my worst behaviors.

It's good to look at myself critically in such a mirror, but it's useless if I change nothing.