Mm-hmm.

So they might be shorter and sort of more options and less enthusiastically asked.

"How'd that work out for you?" is basically saying, "Well, what happened?" Or, "How did you feel when that happened?" In kind of a jokey way, too, right? Like you're sort of saying, "Oh, that probably didn't go very well, and I'm just gonna ask you for a little bit of elaboration of how things went."

Uh-huh.

So to pull that apart, complementary with an E, which means like opposing, coming together, like complementary angles.

Um, and schism is a gap, right? And genesis is to create, right? So you are both working to make the gap bigger, but you think you're trying to make it smaller.