Once I was doing a performance appraisal for the team, one of the team members had written that he would like to add negotiation skills to his resume in the coming year. After reading that, I thought that even I needed to polish my negotiation skills.

That evening, when I was surfing TV channels, I saw a scene in a soap where a child successfully negotiated with her mother as to how much time she needs to play & study. Though it was an orchestrated script, I could relate to the conversations I have with my child; in that negotiation, the child usually wins.

No child is trained in negotiation skills but still is successful many times. Does this skill wane off as we grow old? What makes us lose something that we already possess?