Choose the right cooling intervention based on visible heat and decision urgency.
Sort each conflict moment by the lightest intervention that protects good thinking. Keep Talking Micro-Pause Full Timeout Clear disagreement with listening intact keep-talking Fast rebuttals but still answering questions micro-pause Silent shutdown and no processing full-timeout Sarcastic aside raises the heat Looping accusation after several repeats Curious question under mild tension cooldown calibration Practiced cooldown calibration instead of one-size-fits-all pausing. If processing is intact, use the lightest move. If processing is gone, use a real timeout. image-card-tray three-bucket-sort
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