thought about my father's world. He had always seen the world through war-like glasses. He had had a winner-takes-all, I am right and you are wrong approach since as long as I could remember.
And now, at the age of seventy, he was realizing that ‘declaring war’ had limited his personal and professional effectiveness in the longer term. That his life would have been very different had he stepped back and thought more carefully about the way he acted, and was perceived, by other people.