The Day Dad Made Them Read the Room

Description:

Dad said observation starts before the problem. Jourdan asked if breakfast counted as a problem. Mom said that depended on whether he was cooking.

When Dad turns a Saturday morning into a reading-the-room exercise, the committee thinks they are ready. They have been trained. They notice things. They are good at this. They are about to find out how much they still have to learn.

Five changes have been made to the house. Every one of them is correctly observed. Every conclusion drawn from them is wrong. And the two German Shepherds, ACE and RIPLEY, have been telling the truth the whole time.

Funny, warm, and genuinely useful, Book Eight teaches baseline behavior, context clues, situational awareness, cognitive bias, and the difference between observing something accurately and interpreting it correctly.

Good observation starts with humility. A clue is not a conclusion.

Publisher: McKenna Books