good questions
on the art of asking questions, as well as examples of good questions to use in all areas of your life - team building, interviewing, improving relationships, research, and more
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good questions
What’s working, and how can we do more of it?” Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Yet, in the real world, this obvious question is almost never asked. Instead, the question we ask is more problem focused: “What’s broken, and how do we fix it?
Dan Heath • Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
When you start managing someone, use your 1:1s in the first couple of weeks to understand their Context. Most new managers focus solely on Content (projects/goals/blockers). But Context + Content lets you move faster from Rapport to Credibility to Trust.
Example 1:1 questions:
Has anyone ever studied or written about physicians & sex? Are disembodied overworked doctors who ignore pee/eat signals able to drop into body & have good sex? How do we code switch from body as disease to body as pleasure? Would any doctors even talk about this? 💥 #medtwitter
a great question to ask a company when doing dilligence:
"What's a feature request that you get a lot, but that you will never build?"
Helps understand where the focus of the team is
Do you believe that success leads to happiness and mental health or the other way around? Why?
/// 100 QUESTIONS /// to gain clarity via Alex Morris:
Why are we doing this?
Ask that of yourself and the team with regularity.
What’s the simplest explanation?
What reaction should all the creative achieve?
What’s your most controversial opinion?
What little frictions exist that might bleed out the work if allowed to compo
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Nowadays, there are four things that are gonna decide if I have a good day. Did I sleep enough? Did I connect deeply with people I love? Did I get some time to myself? Did I make choices for my body that felt good—like, did I take a good walk, did I eat healthy, did I exercise? If I get those four things in place, usually my days are pretty good.
Clay Skipper • Ezra Klein’s Formula for a Good Day Involves These Four Things
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