Solo drill · Openings
Cold Open
Open from a guest card and dealt form. Use at most one setup sentence, then ask the question. No biography, compliment-question, or thesis.
A good rep
- One sentence of setup at most, then the question. The guest should be answering within ten seconds of you starting.
- Recognizably the dealt form. A Decision Point opening asks about a choice; if yours asks about feelings, it drifted.
- No anti-pattern: no compliment, no resume recital, no thesis the guest must untangle before answering.
Background: the nine opening forms and eight anti-patterns.