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I paused, thinking about what he’d said. “Let’s start with something different then,” I finally replied. “Stand up for a second.” Mitch complied, still slouched but now looking at me with curiosity. I rummaged through the middle drawer of my desk. (It’s the one that usually has all the junk in it, right?) I found what I was looking for and slipped it into my pocket.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    In keeping with a postmodern perspective, I purposefully try to avoid two commonly used terms here: “growth” (an organic metaphor invested in the idea of trajectory toward a supposed ideal) and “development” (a modernist concept assuming greater accuracy, improvement, or modication over time toward an evidence-supported practice that moves closer to perfection through scientic discovery).

  2. 2.

    See Sect. 4.5 for descriptions and examples of these types of compliments.

  3. 3.

    See Appendix A for an example.

  4. 4.

    See Appendix A.

  5. 5.

    Inspiration for this dialogue is drawn from a limited example in Stewart and Amundson (1995).

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