And then, most people are so trollish because they were so close to the pain and they’re fed up with being systemically ignored, sidelined, marginalized by the bureaucracy. So these people, if you can hug them, hug the trolls, actually do have notions of the solutions that you can then bring to the bureaucracy. So by building this kind of exoskeleton of troll hugging and practicing Aikido for more than, I guess, 100 collaborative meetings this way, inviting trolls in through the cracks, letting the light in, then we rebuilt the trust. The approval rate was at 9% in 2014, but by the time we first met in 2020, it was over 70%.

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