Original practice · Optional exercise · Care with room to breathe
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 offer of support exceeds the time the giver has.
- State a smaller promise that can be kept.
- 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
Where would a useful pause belong between the problem and the response?