So what I really meant was…
“What leads you to that conclusion? Could you explain how you came to that opinion.”
“What if we looked at it a little differently…”
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~Aristotle
by Alison Poulsen, PhD
Read “Respect each other: ‘He’s always talking down to me.'”
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