Man you are speaking my mind. A healthy person doesn’t have ‘should’ in their vocabulary. I could speak for hours on this.

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Please 🙏 speak on this. People who don’t consider the “shoulds” are typically unbalanced IMLE.

Should is fine but it should probably go with an “if”. Often times the if statement is left out , and then it becomes the vague imposition if a value system.

Like “if you want your dough to rise faster, you should put it in warm humid environment”. Nothing wrong w that

Yeah sure. It can get pedantic. For people I aim to use could instead, along with encouragement instead of direction. And in your example ‘it’, eg “if you want the dough to rise faster, it needs to be in a warm humid environment”, that way it’s presented as an opportunity for the person to own without an implication of being wrong, the focus is on the dough not them.

My thinking is more or less that of Adler, and his ideas of horizontal not vertical relationship structures.