Picking Your Strategy

Now that you know that you have to make a choice, because your life can literally depend on it, you need to know that you are in complete control. You are in control of picking the right strategy to use at the right time with the right verbal enemy. If one strategy doesn’t work, know that you have others from which to choose.
The thing to remember in picking your verbal weapon is that, like the martial artist, you are never initially on the offensive. The black belt in karate keeps her lethal weapons (her hands and feet) under wraps until she must defend herself.
Similarly, you too need to keep your verbal weapons under wraps until the point that you have to verbally defend yourself.