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My son walks into my room and says, “Dad, where are your car keys?”

“Where are you going?” I ask.

“Gym,” he says, and starts to walk out of the room again.

“Wait a minute. Where are you going?”

“To the gym.”

“I got that, but you asked me a question and you’re walking out of the room before I answered it.”

“I thought you could give me the answer as I was walking away.”

“Well, I can’t because the keys are in my pocket.”

“Oh,” he says.

“See, that’s what threw me off,” I say, “is I’ve got the keys right here and you’re walking in the other direction.”

“I don’t have time to stand around,” he says.

“You don’t? Well, I don’t have time to figure out other people’s mystifying behavior.”

Which is better:

A. Telling a project stakeholder that his good idea is never going to happen?

B. Letting him think it is going to happen when it isn’t?

• A toolbox of questions http://sachachua.com/wp/p/6907 #
• Either I lost 25 lbs since Friday or the scale at the gym is broken… #

• From a reference letter: “Not only did he have the answer to any question, he would give you that answer right away.” #