This might come as a
shock to some of you but I like to ask questions. I don’t recall when this mild
obsession began taking over my life but I don’t think I was like this as a child
or teenager. I believe the genesis of these questions came around the time of going
on dates with strangers and needing things to say to them. I remember being
intrigued by a New York Times questions to fall in love; I was hooked.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/fashion/no-37-big-wedding-or-small.html
Have I learned
anything about people by making most interactions with me feel like a job interview?
Other than my Excel spreadsheet with everyone’s names, questions asked and
answered that I input into an AI machine learning algorithm, no.
Here is a list of
questions I like to ask. Feel free to use next time you are sitting around a bonfire
or a power outage forces you off your device and you find yourself sitting
directly across from a human being without technology.
What 2-3 thoughts cross
your mind the most each day?
If Obama was coming over
to your house for dinner, what would you make him but you can’t Google what he
likes but are allowed to go to the grocery store?
What is your favourite
quote?
What would your
future 50 year old self tell you?
If you met you at a party,
would you like you?
If you met your
grade 5 self, what 2-3 things would you be proud of and 2-3 things you would
either not like or be confused about?
If you had to marry
a high school or university professor, what subject would they teach?
What makes you a
good boyfriend/girlfriend? What would make you a bad one?
You get to live in
any fictional world, what world would you select?
If you had to sit yourself
down and have a serious talk, what would you say?
How do you hold yourself
back?
What’s a story your
friends or family like to tell about you?
Favourite Friends
character? (The correct answer is Ross)
What do people
compliment you most on? What do you wish people noticed more?
What is something you
used to enjoy doing but stopped?
Favourite Disney movie?
What is something you
have changed your mind about recently?
Pet peeves?
Three pieces of money
advice all high school seniors should know and try to follow?
Free flights or free
food?
If you had a HUD
that showed three stats about any person you looked at, what three stats would
you want it to show? For example, it could be books read, items lost and money
gambled away.
What stat for your
life would you most like to see?
Is having kids selfish?
What’s the title of
the current chapter of your life?
Tear gas makes
people cry and laughing gas makes people giggle, what other kinds of gases do
you wish existed?
What do a lot of
people have very strong opinions about, even though they know very little about
it?
What is the biggest
lesson you never learned?
You can tell whether a man is clever by his
answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz
What lie do you tell
most often?
What role do you
play in your group of friends?
Most illegal thing you’ve
done?
What always sounds
like a good idea at the time but rarely is?
How would your
parents describe you?
How many tabs open
on your computer is too many?
What’s a fashion
look you can’t pull off?
If you had a 25th
hour added to each day, what would you do with that hour?
Who is your amazing
race partner?
Something you have
never tried but think you would be good at?
What is something
men don’t understand about women? (Not allowed to say everything) What do women not understand about men?
What is something
you don’t like to do alone?
First way you made
money?
Nicknames?
Baby names you like?
If you could have
the answer to any question?
What is something
you could be very wrong about?
What is worth
spending the extra money on?
What are you addicted
to?
Social situation you're
bad at?
A moment that took
your breath away?
Who is your favourite
human?
These aren’t all of
my questions but certainly some of the big hitters. I hope you enjoyed reading
them and would certainly come in handy at your next dinner party or road trip.
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers
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