Chunking
Strip the advice
CHALLENGE IT
Repair a Bad Metaphor
Remove the preaching, restore the isomorphism, and give the listener their choice back.
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Self-assessment
CHALLENGE IT
“You're like a person banging their head on a wall! You just need to stop banging and think positive — when one door closes, another opens. I read about a climber who never gave up and reached the summit. So don't give up either!”
List what is wrong with it, then rewrite it as a structural metaphor for: increasing effort applied to an unchanged method.
Client autonomy
The repair test: could the listener take it, leave it, or read it their own way? If not, it is still advice.