Original practice · Optional exercise · Attention with edges
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: A meeting drifts into an interesting but separate problem.
- Record that question in a named place and return to the stated decision.
- 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?