To get you started, let’s look at why some questions are more effective than others. Whitmore offers a simple sports analogy:
How would we respond to that? Defensively, perhaps, and we would probably lie, just as we did at school when the teacher asked us if we were paying attention.
More defensiveness – or perhaps a little analysis if you are that way inclined. ‘I am’, ‘I don’t know’, ‘because I was thinking about my grip’ or, more truthfully, ‘because you are distracting me and making me nervous’.