{"id":1044,"date":"2017-09-20T14:56:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T14:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darylchow.com\/Daryl_Chow\/Blog\/wordpress\/fullcircles\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2024-03-13T15:51:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T15:51:54","slug":"a-powerful-question-to-ask-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/a-powerful-question-to-ask-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"One Powerful Question to Ask Each Other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/whats-on-your-mind-jonatan-pie-353191-copy.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1045\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1045 \" src=\"http:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/whats-on-your-mind-jonatan-pie-353191-copy.jpg\" alt=\"what's on your mind jonatan-pie-353191 copy\" width=\"947\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/whats-on-your-mind-jonatan-pie-353191-copy.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/whats-on-your-mind-jonatan-pie-353191-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/whats-on-your-mind-jonatan-pie-353191-copy-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/whats-on-your-mind-jonatan-pie-353191-copy-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 947px) 100vw, 947px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;\">Maybe we need to find a way of having less things and have deeper connections with people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;\">Rather than trying to give people advice, we can start by asking each other questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;\">Facebook got you figured out long time ago. In the opening of each potential news update in your profile, it asks,\u00a0<strong>&#8220;what&#8217;s on your mind?&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;\">Steal this question back from\u00a0the superficials. We bias ourselves to share in a certain desirable light when we post on social media platforms.\u00a0Instead, learn to ask the very same question &#8220;what&#8217;s on your mind?&#8221; \u00a0with <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/in-praise-of-the-nurturers-of-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">people you love and care <\/a><\/span>about, and people that you work with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;\">Go further, ask even the people you do not get along.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;\">And it may help to follow-up this question with &#8220;And what else?&#8221;<span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">[1]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;\">Be really\u00a0curious with the people that you are asking. Question in order to listen, don&#8217;t listen in order to question further. Everyone wants their story to be heard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\">Bless Your Minds,<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/darylchow.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daryl\u00a0Chow<\/a>, <\/span>MA, Ph.D. (Psych)<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: Helvetica;\">Notes:<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: Helvetica;\">[1]\u00a0I first learned this from an interview with coach Michael Bungay Stainer.<\/span>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Photo by\u00a0<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<a style=\"background-color: black; color: white; text-decoration: none; padding: 4px 6px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Ubuntu, Roboto, Noto, 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; display: inline-block; border-radius: 2px;\" title=\"Download free do whatever you want high-resolution photos from Jonatan Pie\" href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@r3dmax?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=photographer-credit&amp;utm_content=creditBadge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; padding: 2px 3px;\">Jonatan Pie<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}