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 QUESTIONS
- Questions gather information, gain perspective,
 and counter impulsive knee-jerk judgments. Even-handed people
 ask a lot of questions before they make up their mind or form an
 opinion.
 RATIONAL - "Feelings and Opinions are often a personal
 triumph over good inquiry and good data." Information comes in
 many forms, some we like, some we do not. However, we do not
 have to like it, or “feel good about it” to use it for mutually
 satisfying benefit..
 FEELINGS OK - Acceptance of self and other's feelings as part
 of the total picture. People with authority and power ignore their
 own feelings, and other peoples, at their own peril. 
 BIG PICTURE - As opposed to the small, narrow, limited view
 that often as not generates small, narrow, limited conclusions.
 Increase perspective by questions including feelings.
 INQUIRES - Taking an active interest in gathering information
 about "what is going on" as opposed to operating on gossip,
 innuendo, partial information, and prejudice. Consultation and
 the sharing of thoughts, feelings, opinions, is a mutual two-way
 street.