"Let's start with a small exercise," said Nan Zhubin. "Right now, you feel 'at risk of being laid off.' If you were to answer 'yes' or 'no,' what would your answer be?"
The answer was affirmative.
"...Yes," the visitor hesitated for a moment before replying, and then mumbled a lengthy explanation, "My recent performance has indeed been poor, and the company is laying off employees. No matter how I look at it, I feel like if layoffs happen, I'll definitely be the one..."
These were all negative emotions, but Nan Zhubin noticed the hesitation before the visitor answered.
Nan Zhubin slightly curled the corners of his mouth. "What if we don't do a yes-or-no question now? Let's assess the probability of 'definitely being laid off' from 0 to 10, with 0 being 'absolutely impossible' and 10 being 'definitely going to happen.' What score would you give it in your mind?"
Is it 10?
Yet the visitor didn't immediately give this answer and hesitated.
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