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A small practice for the sudden silence

A practical exercise: Describe what the pause makes you expect next.

Original practice · Optional exercise · Listening between the notes

Choose a low-stakes example you can change without affecting another person’s private information or commitments.

  1. Describe the current situation in one sentence. The example here is: A short silence changes the shape of a chorus.
  2. Describe what the pause makes you expect next.
  3. Compare the result with the difficulty you named. Write one concrete observation.
  4. Keep, adapt, or stop the experiment. A note about why you stopped is a valid result.

Try a question

Which part is an observation, and which part is an assumption you could check?