8Craft Surgical Strike Questions

Because the other person’s answers will be your desired outcome

In this chapter you’ll discover a true-to-life dialogue showing how questions asked, rather than statements made, win arguments. It’s what argument pros call slow squeezing.

“YOU WON’T HELP SHOOTS GROW BY PULLING THEM HIGHER.”—CHINESE PROVERB.

Bev and I arrived in Zagreb, in the former Yugoslavia, on a Saturday night in November. In our room at the InterContinental Hotel was a brochure extolling the beauty of Plitvice Lakes—16 small lakes connected by waterfalls in a beautiful mountain setting.

A Sunday visit to Plitvice Lakes sounded wonderful. According to the concierge, Plitvice Lakes tour buses did not operate off-season, but public buses ran ...

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