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At any rate, listening to her discuss Muppets with Scott Simon is just right. Copyright NPR Skip to main content. Close close Donate. Close Close. BBC Newsday Value this story? That, and always letting the Chaos Muppets do the driving. And the perceived takeover of court-connected ADR by lawyers are the Order Muppets trying to regain their foothold?

We could, instead of talking about negotiation styles, sort our students by whether they are Chaos Muppets or Order Muppets and then discuss what happens when each type of Muppet interacts with the other. When conducting mediation trainings, we could discuss the balance between Order and Chaos that each mediator must bring to the table the Muppet Mediator, if you will. The possibilities are endless.

I am already thinking about how to teach this. And, as Lithwick herself signed off, this post is brought to you by the letter M and the number 2. Knowing where your comfort zone and stengths lie can help you to capitalize on those strengths in the courtroom, in ADR, in the boardroom, or any other environment. I am already appreciating the new perspective this theory has given me. People do this snap judgment all the time to help them make choices when they do not have all the information.

However, trying to fit people into one group or another is always tricky, no matter how vague the group description is.

They make their way through life in a swirling maelstrom of food crumbs, small flaming objects, and the letter C. Bunsen Honeydew and—paradigmatically—Animal, are all Chaos Muppets.

Zelda Fitzgerald was a Chaos Muppet. So, I must tell you, is Justice Stephen Breyer. They sometimes resent the responsibility of the world weighing on their felt shoulders, but they secretly revel in the knowledge that they keep the show running.

Your first grade teacher was probably an Order Muppet. So is Chief Justice John Roberts.