Questions
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Weatherhold: Reflective Statements Empower Partners Better Than Asking Questions
“Once you get more comfortable with offering reflections instead of questions, What ends up happening is that you provide the person on the other side of that conversation with more power. You also provide them with an opportunity to speak to things that they l…”
Duhigg: Supercommunicators ask 10 to 20 times more questions than average
“One thing we know about consistent super communicators is that they ask more questions than the average person. They ask like 10 to 20 times as many questions as the average person.”
Duhigg: Supercommunicators ask 10 to 20 times more questions than average
“People who are consistent super communicators, they tend to ask 10 to 20 times as many questions as the average person”
Direct questions trigger defensive repetition, while mirroring prompts counterparts to elaborate
“The reason why it's superior to a question, if I say, what did you mean by that? You'll probably repeat what you just said with the exact words, possibly even louder, sort of like an American overseas. If you repeat the exact words louder, it automatically bec…”