Introduction
The goal of this talk is to get some agreements on rules of engagement, so that we can have a conversation on a subject that is near and dear to me, The mating cycle.

1. Perfect Thinking

• Certainty
• Self organising systems (path of least resistance)
• Our desire to be always right
• Seeking descent and diversity and our own worst enemy

2. Rules and Rethink Agreements

• Commitment & Compromise

• Enemy to defy
• Rules of golf and road
• Rules too hard
• Parallel talking
• Agree on agreements

3. Prepare for the Failure

• Negativity of this
• Grow apart
• Fear of failure
• Preventative maintenance
• Phase transitions

4. Complain responsibly

• What is a complaint
• The most obvious lost
• Go directly to the source
• If you lose it we’ve lost it

5. Six Rules of Engagement

• Speaking
• Responding
• Moderator a counterbalance

6. Conversations and Conversions

• Conversing lost treasure
• From the start
• Conversations build upon agreements
• Converting our own concepts
• Creativity on steroids a quantum leap
• Feedback loops
• Truce

7. The mating cycle (the conversations and dispute)

• Golden rule
• Who should initiate
• Social trend, does the greatest number rule
• Cause of divorce and marriage
• Cost of sexual relationships
• Conclusion – Matrimony, commitment, & compromise