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Michael
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Solution-focused interviewing looks to the past not to explore or analyze earlier problems or failures but rather to bring to light the client’s previous successes.
“the work of the lawyer is to argue about and determine what the applicable law is, what the facts are, and how the facts fit into the applicable law.”
― The Tools of Argument: How the Best Lawyers Think, Argue, and Win
― The Tools of Argument: How the Best Lawyers Think, Argue, and Win
“In general terms, we can say that lawyers analyze and argue about what the rules are and how they apply to particular situations.”
― The Tools of Argument: How the Best Lawyers Think, Argue, and Win
― The Tools of Argument: How the Best Lawyers Think, Argue, and Win
“Written rules, produced by a government as laws, or produced by private parties as contracts or other rules, are best understood as a specification about how people will behave in the future, or at least about the consequences of certain behavior in the future.”
― The Tools of Argument: How the Best Lawyers Think, Argue, and Win
― The Tools of Argument: How the Best Lawyers Think, Argue, and Win
“By making the weaker argument in this sense appear the stronger, lawyers or other sophists may subvert first principles, truth, or public policy.”
― The Tools of Argument: How the Best Lawyers Think, Argue, and Win
― The Tools of Argument: How the Best Lawyers Think, Argue, and Win
“A really dysfunctional way of living life is to check in with your feelings all day: “What do I feel like doing now?” By choosing to obey your feelings you run a huge risk of wrecking your life. When you just start doing what’s required and ignore your feelings, you will develop a muscle that will change your life.”
― Straight-Line Leadership: Tools for Living with Velocity and Power in Turbulent Times
― Straight-Line Leadership: Tools for Living with Velocity and Power in Turbulent Times
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