Better Questions Better Life Podcast (Formerly the Why 2 Podcast)

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Victor Frankl

What does mindfulness and paradigms have to do with being able to ask better questions to live a better life?

Well, today’s interview featuring David Walker, pulls from his years of work as both a Mindfulness teacher and his experience in his Consulting practice.

The concepts that David takes us through on this interview, are critical to shoring up the foundations in which all other techniques and principles of how to ask better questions are built upon.

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“Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together.”  ― Brené Brown

As we continue to dive in to human psychology, and explore the underlying processes and algorithms we use to have conversations, we have now come across two very important concepts: Social Desirability Bias & Impression Management.

These two aspects, different sides of the same coin, really rob us of being able to lean into deeper conversations to explore meaning questions and find meaningful answers.

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Resources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_desirability_bias

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impression_management

https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/cutting-edge-leadership/201310/the-dangerous-art-impression-management

https://sciencestruck.com/what-is-impression-management

https://epubs.scu.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=hahs_pubs

What does a People Scientist do? Can you ask too many questions? How do you ask questions to figure out which questions you need to ask?

All these questions and more answered on today's episode featuring Chris Barrell who is a People Scientist working at (one of my favourite companies), Culture Amp. 

Chris gives us a unique insight into the science and rigor behind how to conduct surveys in an organisation, shares his own personal questions that has served him well, talks about many of the mistakes companies make when they survey their organisations, and MUCH MUCH MORE!!

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While the world is a gold mine, you need to go digging in other people’s heads to unearth riches. Questions are your pickaxes and competitive advantage. - Tim Ferriss

As we switch gears from the previous epsiodes, we start to dig a little deeper in to some of the challenges we face when it comes to asking good questions. This episode is the start where we will specifically tackle some of the most prevalent biases that hinder us in asking questions.

While the concept of confirmation bias isn’t new to most people, this is an important episode to refresh yourself of this concept as well as get some new tools to make sure you’re not robbed of the opportunities when asking questions.

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Resources:

https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-overcome-cognitive-biases-and-make-better-decisions-daeecd38f910

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2018/05/15/fake-news-social-media-confirmation-bias-echo-chambers/533857002/

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/8/16263710/fox-news-presidential-vote-study

https://www.valuewalk.com/2018/06/social-media-confirmation-bias/

Links from today’s show:

https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-overcome-cognitive-biases-and-make-better-decisions-daeecd38f910

Ever wonder how a Qualitative Researcher asks questions? I know I did!!

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Following up from last week’s episode where we spoke about the two biggest barriers to asking good questions, we want to flip that around now and start to look at two fundamental keys that we can use to unlock good questions.

This episode is going to seem basic, and I really hope it isn’t anything new. But at certain times, we can easily lose track of these principles and our ability to learn and explore from all situations quickly dissolves.

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Ever wonder how someone who comes up with apps or design website or experiences? Well, make sure you check Milly Schmidt's interview on the Why 2 Podcast.

Milly has a vast career working in designing experiences, products, processes and even organisations. She is also a writer, teacher at General Assembly and all around really smart lady! 

Thanks to her strong career and teaching experience, she is able to break down critical question asking principles and provides a lot of hidden wisdom of things you didn't think you needed to know - but you do!

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“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”  ― Stephen R. Covey

When it comes to asking the best questions to live the best life, we need to address the two biggest enemies stopping you from achieving this.

We need to go back to basics and start to make sure that the concepts we will be building over the coming weeks and months aren’t being silently undermined by two silent phenomenon robbing you of your ability to ask good questions.

In this episode I talk about:

1.) My own experiences falling victim to these two enemies

2.) Strategies on how to recognising them

3.) And lay down some foundations on how we will continue to address them over the coming weeks and months.

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Links to Fiona Triaca’s Interview on the Why 2 Podcast: https://www.betterquestionsbetterlife.co/why-2-podcast-1/2018/3/7/20-fiona-triaca-the-nuts-and-bolts-of-starting-a-business

Today's episode is part 2 of Narelle Fraser's interview. Narelle is a retired Police Detective with the Victoria Police who has a career spanning 27 years. 15 of those as a Detective at the Rape and Homicide Squads and Missing Persons Unit, but dedicating much of her career to investigating child abuse and sex offences.

This interview is an amazing glimpse and rare glimpse in to how she went about asking questions and investigations. Both with victims who had suffered some of the most horrific things a person can experience, and asking questions to those who committed these crimes. 

I highly recommend you check our some more episodes where Narelle goes in to more detail about some of the things she experienced in her career. 

Link to Australian True Crime (iTunes)

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“Look for people who have lots of great questions. Smart people are the ones who ask the most thoughtful questions, as opposed to thinking they have all the answers. Great questions are a much better indicator of future success than great answers.”  ― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

Welcome back to the second episode of the Better Questions Better Life Podcast all focused around how we can ask better questions to live better lives.

This episode is really focused on taking stock of the questions we’re probably asking right now and getting you to start taking stock of some of the questions you’re probably asking that aren’t serving you.

I talk about:

1. What pizza and asking good questions have in common.

2. What makes a bad question.

3. Give you a quick list of some of the most common questions we ask, that aren’t serving us.

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