Disagreement isn’t always easy to handle, it can feel uncomfortable or even upsetting. But I’ve learned it’s where the real work begins. The best meetings I’ve been in didn’t end with fast nods. They started moving when someone said, “I see it differently,” and we had to slow down, ask better questions, and sharpen the idea. History backs this up. For centuries, many people in Europe followed the Ptolemaic view: Earth at the center , everything else moving around it. It fit what the eye could see. In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus put forward a controversial thought: the planets, including Earth, orbit the Sun. Decades later, Galileo Galilei pointed a new tool, the telescope, at the sky. He saw moons circling Jupiter and the phases of Venus. They were clues that supported a Sun-centered system. His support for this view sparked fierce debate. Tragically, he was tried and kept under house arrest! The cost was real. But the long-term result was a shift in how people looked at the world and wh...