When I got to 54 years old, I thought I would have life worked out. Nope. Turned out not to be the case. So now, I seek out high achievers and ask them the questions I want to know the answers to: answers that will help me - and you - live a better life

MY QUESTIONS

  1. What’s the best decision you’ve ever made?

  2. What’s your most valuable skill?

  3. What’s your most strongly held belief?

  4. What problem would you most like to solve?

  5. What have you changed your mind about the most?

  6. What fictional world would you like to live in?

  7. What’s the biggest lie you’ve ever told?

  8. What did you want to be as a child?

  9. What lesson have to had to learn again, and again?

  10. What can you recite from memory?

  11. What’s the wildest thing you’ve ever done?

  12. What’s been your greatest challenge?

  13. What animal best represents you?

  14. What books are worth reading?

  15. What’s the best, or worst, advice you ever received?

  16. Who has had the greatest impact on your life?

  17. What is worth suffering for?

  18. What do you think the meaning of life is?

  19. What do you do to relax?

  20. What should be avoided?

  21. What is your idea of a perfect day?

  22. What one idea do you want to pass on (to your kids)?

  23. What event in your life would you like to re-visit/re-do?

  24. What’s your most productive habit?

  25. What are you most thankful for?

  26. What keeps you awake at night?

  27. What makes you happiest?

  28. What’s your biggest regret?

  29. What fear holds you back?

  30. What would you like to apologise for?

  31. What are you most proud of?

  32. What do you hide from the world?

  33. What would you never give up?

  34. What’s the biggest risk you’ve ever taken?

  35. What three words best describe you?

  36. What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever had to do?

  37. What is your most treasured possession?

  38. Who, or what, do you miss the most?

  39. What do you wish was possible?

  40. What are you willing to do that most people aren’t?

  41. What do people assume about you that’s wrong?

  42. How would you summarise your life so far?

  43. What annoys you more than anything else?

  44. What epithet would you like attached to your name?

  45. What has made you successful?

  46. What’s the most important quality in a friend?

  47. Who, in history, would you most like to meet?

  48. When is it okay to break the rules?

  49. Where would you like to travel in time?

  50. When were you most ‘lost’?

  51. What are your hopes for the future?

  52. What would you like to be remembered for?

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