"We've a remarkable opportunity now," McChrystal says, "to move with the American people away from an easy citizenship that does not ask something from every American yet asks a lot from a tiny few". We do, indeed, owe something to our country, and we owe an enormous debt to those who have done tour after tour in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I'd rather they loved themselves more than they loved me, I'd rather that they have asked something from me…this love is too heavy.
When people ask you questions or demand something from you, don't reveal the whole truth or you can lie.
For example, if you are having a problem with employee retention, you should not ask, "Why are you thinking about quitting?" Instead, ask something like, "What prevents you from recommending a talented friend from working here?" The conversation that ensues will likely give you the answer as to why they are thinking about leaving.
To start a conversation you can ask something like "Don't I know you from somewhere?" or "Do you go to "certain school"?".
She acknowledged that it is inconvenient to have to ask something back from someone that was given to them, but "this is something you have to live with", she said.
But it does ask something slightly unusual from the contemporary reader.
I generally also ask something that requires a response from the interviewee.
And yet, art keeps asking something new from us, what Robert Frost called "counterlove, original response".
