A good question can open up someone to you much more colourfully, interestingly and honestly than a funny story or anecdote can. So instead of the boringass regular questions you may get asked over the course of your week, try these when you’re with someone you actually want to get …
What is normal to you? And what’s ‘weird’? Anything unknown (and that challenges what you think is normal)? Well that can basically everything. What you see as weird is perfectly normal to someone somewhere. And vice versa. So there is no normal. The problem with trying to be normal is that only you truly …
If someone’s decisions seems odd or completely understandable to you, they’re probably a no-brainer to them. And even if you think you do understand the motivations and reasons for their decisions or what they do, you probably only know a part of the picture. Natasha in Tolstoy’s War and Peace is misunderstood, …
Do other people sometimes act weird according to you? And other times is it quite expected? The only thing unites (or divides) you and those people may be the what they do, but it may perhaps in no way at all be the why. Think about your entire life up until …
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