Emotions
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Today’s daily question and quote of the day are about emotions.
When you ask a lot of questions (and I do!) you are always faced with emotional answers. Even to very simple questions like: “Do you have a plan?”
Very often you can see how the person that asked the questions get’s more than irritated by the answers given. Sometimes they step back, stop asking and miss the opportunity to analyze what happened. Every so often silence is an even more powerful way to get more and/or better answers.
But let’s step back and see why there is an emotional answer:
Understanding why people get emotional over easy questions is step number one in taking charge.
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Today’s daily question and quote of the day are about emotions.
When you ask a lot of questions (and I do!) you are always faced with emotional answers. Even to very simple questions like: “Do you have a plan?”
Very often you can see how the person that asked the questions get’s more than irritated by the answers given. Sometimes they step back, stop asking and miss the opportunity to analyze what happened. Every so often silence is an even more powerful way to get more and/or better answers.
But let’s step back and see why there is an emotional answer:
- Jane is in state of denial.
- Marc has other problems and is overwhelmed by them.
- The person has no clue, but does not want to admit it.
Isn’t it interesting how many people (including myself) rather say something wrong than keeping their mouth shut? - Pam feels threatened by the question and let’s her emotions take over.
- Bill is following his own agenda and does not care about the question.
- Ann didn’t understand the question and/or is not interested in understanding it.
- Don is upset that he didn’t ask that question. His emotions take over.
Understanding why people get emotional over easy questions is step number one in taking charge.
Do you take charge?
How do you handle emotional answers?
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