Quote Originally Posted by E-Stat
It can be very helpful in sales situations, too.

Another non-threatening question might be "What are you trying to achieve with {fill in the blank}?

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OT,

Way way back, when I was still in school, I wrote a program that would do just that. It was supposed to be a psychologist program. If you said that you hated your mother, it would ask you why you hated your mother. Because she used to beat me. Why did she used to beat you? Because I was bad. Why were you bad. etc...
It was annoying as h'll.