How do I stop answering private questions?
Try one of the following evasive maneuvers instead.
- Answer with another question. Pause and respond with a question of your own.
- Dodge the question.
- Shame the questioner.
- Start with “No.”
- Ignore the question.
- Put them on the defensive.
- Use a canned answer.
- Give a general answer to a specific question.
How do you deal with a nosy personal question?
10 assertive tips on dealing with nosy questions
- Go with your gut.
- Don’t be rude back.
- Use “I” statements.
- Find out more if appropriate.
- Say how you feel about being asked or about giving the information.
- Depersonalise your answer.
- Express your feelings if you want to.
- Move them on.
How do you decline a question?
If you want to be forthright, you can say, “I’d rather not say.” If you want to be a little less blunt, you can say, “It’s hard to say,” which as ambiguous enough to allow a little freedom. In a more informal setting, “You never know…” is a good way to deflect a question.
What requires an answer but asks no question?
The answer to the riddle, “What demands an answer but asks no question?” is a telephone or a doorbell. The riddle is making a pun on the word answer. Instead of a spoken reply, the word is used to mean an action in response to some event. A riddle is a puzzling question that requires a thoughtful or witty answer.
How to ask the right question in the right way?
Avoid asking rhetorical questions. A rhetorical question is a figure of speech in the form of a question.
How to ask your intuition for answers?
Good questions to ask your intuition are ones that are emotionally neutral and are open-ended. An open-ended question is one that cannot be answered with a one-word an- swer such as yes or no. Open-ended questions require your thinking mind to give it some thought before answering and usually the thinking mind gives an answer that is wordy.