Before You Answer
David A. Kessinger, former Deputy Director of Clandestine Operations

The moment is fast, you’re polite, and the other person has had more practice at this conversation than you have.

This book is the answer, written down in advance: 89 replies, word for word, for the moments that make you fold. Each one comes with when to use it and the tempting line to leave unsaid.

The replies, in twelve situations:
✓ Buying time, when someone wants your answer tonight
✓ Holding a no, including with family who use guilt
✓ Gaslighting, when your memory is on trial
✓ Confronting a lie
✓ Love bombing, ghosting and the “hey stranger” return
✓ Narcissists, and how to win the decision
✓ Work: the stolen idea, the interruption and the moving deadline
✓ Exits, so you never have to win the argument

Plus The 2 a.m. Card, The Before-the-Meeting Card and 20 Texts Never to Send.

32 pages · 89 replies · 12 situations · 3 one-page tools

The companion to Read Them Early. Edition II has both books for $38.

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