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The Rumble Language

Name the hard conversation 'a rumble' before you start it.

The concept

Naming the container changes the conversation

Brené Brown's research at Dare to Lead found that giving hard conversations a shared name ('let's rumble') signals psychological safety, invites curiosity over defensiveness, and lowers the social cost of saying 'I don't know yet.'

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