Status: Tags: Links: Conversation
Silence
- When asking a powerful question, embrace the silence
- Silence helps introverts think
Cultivation
Practices
- Reading silence
- If unsure on whether someone is thinking, tell them “I don’t know how to read your silence”
- Encouraging people to stay silent for a bit before answering
- Diminishes groupthink
- Okay, here is the invite: I invite those who tend to speak first to listen first, and those who tend to listen first to speak first
- Rapid-fire after questions
- Take the question process slow, then ask each person and say thank you
- Take notes of encompassing themes or reactionary comments
- Take the question process slow, then ask each person and say thank you
- Embracing silence
- Just wait and be in it
- Smile and make eye contact
- “Thanks for thinking”
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Created:: 2021-07-06 18:07