How to Ask One Question at a Time

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In the book there's actually eight little kind of master classes on how to ask a question well. It's like, pick a good question. Ask it once. Don't add a whole lot of other questions on there. Once you've asked a question, now shut up, and genuinely listen to the answer. When you've heard the answer, respond perhaps with another question perhaps with something else. Then that all sounds pretty straightforward, but here's what most people do. First of all, they really ask agood question. In fact, sometimes they ask fake questions. These are questions that sound like, have you thought of or have you considered? Which by the way, isn't the

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