🍀A Good Question Changes the Story- Issue 182
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Hey Friends, I have been in professions where asking the right questions makes a big difference in the story of a person. This week, I have been reflecting on it a lot - What makes a good question, especially when it comes to connecting with the other person(s) where a person might run into an emotional catharsis?
For example, at dinner parties, if we simply talk about what do you do ?, It won’t take us very far in our conversations but this question can take you to the places that, I think, surprise all of us. - 👇
🎯 What’s on your unofficial résume????
This has the potential to seemingly hijack any dinner conversation in which people are splitting off into small conversations in favour of unifying the table with a single prompt. I have lots of such prompts but “the unofficial résume” is the one that immediately gets us away from the dreaded “What do you do?” A good question is mend to do that. It disrupts a pattern. It goes deeper. Sometimes, it goes sideways. It enables us to travel to a new place without ever leaving one another’s side.
Every day, we spend hours getting to know a new person, family or group of friends. I have come to realise that no matter what? , simply there is “No two conversations are the same”. No two drivers ( stimulus) were the same, be it activists, educationists, landlords, agriculturists, wanderers, trade people, or kind of hippies in the pub 🍻 or the conservatives from the interior lands of any country.
My personal belief is this- 👇
Having a good questions in hand enabled us to find all that we had in common and to delight in what made us each unique.__ Joe
There were a few times when a good, well-timed question had defused a tense moment.
My favourite for staying in the thick of it: “How did you come to think that way?” A good one for changing the subject: “What’s a piece of advice you’d give to your younger self?”
Asking the right questions is one of the incredible ways to learn so much more about someone, I had thought I already knew so well. If you have a similar story to tell, I’d love to hear from you by replying to this 🗞️ 📰 newsletter.
In the meantime, I want to share a few more questions with you in case you’d like to try them out this holiday season with loved ones or kind of strangers. You can find those below.
I hope that, as you gather, whether you feel excitement or trepidation, you can find new stories to share, new questions to ask, and new places to travel together without ever leaving each other’s side.
✅ Let’s Turn the Lens Inwardly-
What’s an encounter with a stranger you will never forget?
What is something you’d like to let go of?
What is something you’d like to invite into your life, to cultivate, to harness?
What is something you’d whisper in the ear of your younger self?
What is a risk you took that changed your life?
What was your form of play as a child and how has that influenced you?
What is a story of friendship, lost or found (or re-found), that changed your criteria for friendship?
What is a taboo you grew up with in your family?
What is a dream you’ve never said aloud?
What’s an experience you’ve had with mortality?
What music would you like people to play at your funeral and why?
What does hope look like for you?
If you had another career, what would it be?
If cities were people, who would be your lover, your boyfriend/girlfriend, and your lifelong partner? (I love this one).
Take good care & enjoy reading this week's dose of ‘Mindful Productivity & Cerebral Happiness’.
Joe
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🧑💻-ARTICLE/BLOG POST/ U TUBE:-⬇️
✅- I have been extensively reading about golf ⛳ 🏌️mechanics and have been converting my valuable time into meaningful practice sessions to get better at it.
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📖📚MY ABSORPTIONS FOR THE MONTH:-⬇️
The White Sniper _By Simo Hayha ( Surprisingly this was recommended by my son Yuvraj )
The Prince _ By Niccolo di Machiavelli
🧠Book, I’m Currently Reading:-📖📚⬇️
Every Shot Must Have A Purpose __ By Pia Nilsson & Lynn Marriot
🧠BOOKS ON MY MIND FOR ABSORPTION:-📖📚⬇️
Good Leaders Ask Great Questions_ By John C Maxwell
Life’s Golden Ticket _ By Brendon Burchard
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power _ By Rajiv Malhotra
Rearming Hinduism_ By Vamsee Juluri
The Alignment Problem ( Machine Learning & Human Values) _ By Brian Christian
The Snakes in Ganga_By Rajiv Malhotra
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Asking good questions is an art and you are an Artist.
Keep it up ! Good show !