by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
I am not a reporter asking a political candidate a question. I actually expect the other person to hear and answer the question I ask. What is wrong with me?<\/strong><\/p>\n I am currently taking a series on online classes. I ask questions in these classes. I am paying for these classes. I expect someone to answer me. The key point is:<\/p>\n I expect someone to answer the question I asked. Not some other question.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I suppose there is something wrong with me. I strongly suspect there is something wrong with my expectations. After a dozen tries, no one has answered any question I asked.<\/p>\n Let’s step outside the online classes and move back into some semblance of real life. I am on some sort of losing streak in my life when it comes to asking questions. I think long and hard on how to word my question. I ask it as plainly as I can. The other person comes back with a discussion of how to make yogurt or some other off-the-wall subject.<\/p>\n Tip: ask the other person to repeat back what question they heard.<\/p>\n Most other persons find this quite annoying and often huff and walk away.<\/p>\n Other tips are welcome. First tip, “Change my expectations.”<\/p>\n Now to the other side. What question did the other person ask me? Something inside me screams that I should pay attention and try to answer the question instead of changing the subject to making yogurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips I am not a reporter asking a political candidate a question. I actually expect the other person to hear and answer the question I ask. What is wrong with me? I am currently taking a series on online classes. I ask questions in these classes. I am paying for these classes. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,247],"tags":[154,248],"class_list":["post-2284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-questions","tag-communication","tag-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions\/2285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}