A hurting question aims at a hole, or at you. At you a filter. At a hole proof or I don’t know.
A question from a desk sometimes hurts. It aims at a hole in proof, or at you. At you: a filter, calm, a bridge back to the thesis. At a hole: I don’t know, or a witness. Repeating a question buys time and the class hears it. A breath from Speaker. Advocate adds a return to the thesis. Do not let yourself be led into a fight. Even when a desk wants theatre. A teacher or a panel wants calm and the thing. Not your ego that defends itself a minute. A mark for behaviour and for content may both fall. A defence is not a duel. It is the thing plus calm that can carry even pain of a question. An answer max forty seconds. Then the end, when you are already at the finish. The slot is an agreement even with a desk that asks long. You cut on topic. Not rudely. A parent holds the account. No recording of a hurting question on the network. No email on a slide. Drill at home, not first in a full class. Do not feed theatre from a desk. A commission wants the thing.
Klára argued that the question is stupid. The class with her. Against her. The thesis gone. Marek repeated the question, breathed, I don’t know that exactly, the proof I have is 12 votes. Calm. The commission nodded. The thesis lives even after a hit from a desk. That is a muscle of Advocate. Drill at home, not first in a full class. A parent on purpose hit Klára personally. She said: To the thesis it holds that… and went back to twelve votes. Marek measured forty seconds. A fight did not come. Into notes of the last slide they wrote the procedure. They did not open Wikipedia.
A question at you personally: To the thesis… and a bridge back to work. Ego is not the topic. The topic is the sentence on the title.
Repeat, a breath, to the thesis. Not a fight.
Practice: a parent asks a question that threatens the thesis, or you. Click Present (F5). Facing. Repeat. A breath. Answer to proof, or I don’t know. No fight. No insult. No email. No reading Wikipedia. In PowerPoint the same. Stopwatch: an answer max forty seconds. Then the end when time runs. Three bans sharper than anytime in the course: do not insult, do not want an email, do not read wiki. The ear is a commission even when it is a classmate. Still the class hears how you behave to a question. A bridge back: To the thesis it holds that… There return the class and yourself. Do not feed theatre from a desk. A parent’s account. Three bans sharper than anytime in the course: do not insult, do not want an email, do not read wiki. The ear is a commission even when it is a classmate. Still the class hears how you behave to a question. The slot is an agreement even with a desk that asks long. You cut on topic.
Wrong: a fight about a stupid question, the class against you, the thesis gone, a mark for behaviour.
Right: a repeat, a breath, I don’t know plus 12 votes, calm, the thesis lives.
Turn an attack on you onto work. Ego does not belong in a defence. Write a bridge To the thesis for a question at you. Measure an answer. Over forty seconds shorten. Tell a parent that a fight is not a defence. Turn an attack on you onto work. Ego does not belong in a defence. Repeat, breathe, to the thesis. Max forty seconds. No fight, email and wiki. Ego is not the topic.
Do not answer with an insult. Do not ask for an email. Do not read Wikipedia. Three bans. Here sharper. The ear is a commission even when it is a classmate.
Four things you will build in this course
The course has four small projects. You do not have to do them all at once. Today you add only this:
🎯 A hobby in 5 slides
Five slides about something you like doing. One sentence about what it is. No paragraphs from your notebook.
Hobby: and is that not boring? A bridge to the thesis why it is worth three minutes. Not a fight about taste.
📚 A report
Eight slides for school: a start, three proofs, an end. The title on every slide is a sentence, not “Slide 3”.
Report: you have that wrong. Repeat, proof or I don’t know. Not a duel about honour.
📊 Survey results
A chart from a table (not a screenshot from chat) and under it where the numbers come from.
Survey: you only asked girls. Admit a limit. Do not touch classmates.
⚖️ A defence
You say one sentence, show proof, answer “and what if…”. If you do not know, you say I don’t know.
Defence: a hurting question is a test of calm. Calm is part of proof.
A hurting question as a dummy run
A parent hurts on purpose. You repeat, breathe, go back to the thesis.
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Present (F5), you are at the end or at proof. A parent asks a question that threatens the thesis. Repeat. A breath. Answer to proof or I don’t know. Facing.
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A second question at you personally. A bridge: To the thesis… Back to the sentence on the title. Not to ego.
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Stopwatch: an answer max forty seconds. Then the end when you are already at the finish. In PowerPoint the same.
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Ban an insult, an email, Wikipedia. Write into notes of the last slide that procedure.
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A parent’s account. No recording of a hurting question on the network. No email on a slide.
Theatre, or the thing
A desk sometimes wants theatre. A commission wants the thing. You pick the thing.
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Write a bridge To the thesis… for a question at you.
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Measure an answer. Over forty seconds shorten.
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Tell a parent that a fight is not a defence.
Now you 💪
- I can repeat a hurting question and breathe.
- I answer to the thesis, not to ego.
- No fight, no insult, under forty seconds.
Done when: You can carry a hurting question in calm: you repeat, you answer to the thesis or I don’t know, you go back to the thing.
What to take from this lesson
- A repeat buys time. The class hears the question.
- A hole: proof or I don’t know. A person: a bridge to the thesis.
- A fight is a fail.
- Max forty seconds, then the end when time runs.
- Three bans: an insult, an email, wiki.
- Names in the examples (Klára, Marek) are made up. Do not put your number, email or photo on a slide.
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