How Do You Answer Hard And Disturbing Questions Intelligently?
• Understand what is meant by a “hard and disturbing question”. For the purposes of this article, it is assumed that such questions involve personal beliefs, or controversial/challenging topics. For example, questions about: Your sexuality, your involvement in something potentially illegal, your faith, your political beliefs, your understanding of something you are allegedly expert at, your knowledge of someone’s infidelities, etc. Basically, it’s a penetrating question that disturbs, worries, upsets, or flummoxes you and you don’t want to appear on the back foot. Loading… • Don’t answer. This is your number one defense reaction. Provide time-buying responses such as: • That’s an interesting question. I’ll have to think that one over. • I’ve never thought about it like that before. Give me some time to get back to you on it. • I’d need the facts first. I’ll do some research and let you know later. • Well, that’s an interesting question. I’d like to answer it but I don’t have enough t
• Understand what is meant by a “hard and disturbing question”. For the purposes of this article, it is assumed that such questions involve personal beliefs, or controversial/challenging topics. For example, questions about: Your sexuality, your involvement in something potentially illegal, your faith, your political beliefs, your understanding of something you are allegedly expert at, your knowledge of someone’s infidelities, etc. Basically, it’s a penetrating question that disturbs, worries, upsets, or flummoxes you and you don’t want to appear on the back foot. • Don’t answer. This is your number one defense reaction. Provide time-buying responses such as: • That’s an interesting question. I’ll have to think that one over. • I’ve never thought about it like that before. Give me some time to get back to you on it. • I’d need the facts first. I’ll do some research and let you know later. • Well, that’s an interesting question. I’d like to answer it but I don’t have enough time right n
