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5 Jan 2025 Lenny's Podcast Scripts for difficult conversations: Giving hard feedback, navigating defensiveness, the three questions you should end every meeting with, more | Alisa Cohn (executive coach)
“Sometimes people get upset when you mention like, "You're getting emotional," or I don't know.”
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- Lenny Rachitsky
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- uncertainty
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- 5 Jan 2025
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…Yeah, exactly. Sometimes people get upset when you mention like, "You're getting emotional," or I don't know. Is that a thing that you deal with of just like, "How dare you say I'm feeling emotional?" I'm just... I'm not emotional. Why do you think [inaudible 00:22:31] emotional? Right, exactly. Yes, of course. Now, when someone's crying, they're obviously getting emotional. When they're defensive, it's possible that you might want to use a different word. I can see that this is really upsetting you or this is really triggering you, or I can see that the temperature between us has just changed. You could say something like that. I do think also it's helpful to know your people because sometimes you could realize that actually they can deal with that, but then sometimes you have to really [inaudible 00:23:00] the delicate words that you need to use to pause the conversation.…
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