Original practice · Optional exercise · Questions that open doors
Choose a low-stakes example you can change without affecting another person’s private information or commitments.
- Describe the current situation in one sentence. The example here is: An invitation seems to permit only an enthusiastic yes.
- Ask how the recipient could comfortably decline.
- Compare the result with the difficulty you named. Write one concrete observation.
- Keep, adapt, or stop the experiment. A note about why you stopped is a valid result.
Try a question
What would tell you that the proposed move helped with the actual difficulty?