Answer to the reader exercise is: definitely the horned beast is far too deferential and self-conscious and is ceding power to the humans in this scenario. Their attention appears to be focused inwards on their own feelings (submissive!) while the human attention is focused outwards, gathering information about the beast (dominant!).
“Thanks for working with me on this. Here are my comments and questions.” It seems so simple. But this is GOLD!
The word “comments” does so much — it can encompass all kinds of objections and requests, but sounds so much nicer.
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Answer to the reader exercise is: definitely the horned beast is far too deferential and self-conscious and is ceding power to the humans in this scenario. Their attention appears to be focused inwards on their own feelings (submissive!) while the human attention is focused outwards, gathering information about the beast (dominant!).
Actually, the humans are more focused on each other in a conspiratorial way, but still dominant.
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