There is a lot of wisdom in this simple little flow chart. We're social animals and sometimes we make simple situations unnecessarily complicated. For example, my firm hired a new girl to join my team and after her first day one of my colleagues asked me: "Have you told [the new girl] you're gay?" Of course, my response was "No, hopefully she's smart enough to catch on." I wish I would have replied: "Have you told [the new girl] you're heterosexual?"
Now, doesn't that question sound ridiculous when I replaced "gay" with "heterosexual"? "Have you told [the new girl] you're gay?" was always an absurd question to my ears...but somehow it didn't seem that way to everyone...
So have that answer ready next time you are asked! I'm often thinking of what I wished I said 10, 15, OK an hr later...... Well at least something better eventually comes around
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