Try Adding Before Rejecting a Suggestion
A suggestion arrives and the mind supplies a reason it will fail. The reason may be sound. Yet if every answer begins with rejection, we may never learn which part of the suggestion could be useful.
Before deciding, ask what part could work or what condition would have to change. An additive question does not require agreement. It lets us examine a proposal in pieces rather than treating the first objection as the final verdict.
A clear no may still be the responsible answer. A suggestion can be unsafe, intrusive, impractical, or simply unwanted. The point is to choose with the relevant facts in view, not to make openness an obligation.
Words can change the next conversation. They do not change circumstances by themselves. If a possibility survives examination, it still needs a decision, resources, and action.