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A list of 149 insanely good questions to get to know someone.

  1. What's the most frustrating part about your job? Your day?
  2. What do you hear your colleagues complain about the most?
  3. What's one part of your job you wish you didn't have to do?
  4. Are there any daily tasks you would like to outsource?
  5. How have you tried to simplify or reduce your workload?
  6. What's one problem you've been trying to solve over time?
  7. (Seriously), what keeps you up at night?
  8. Is there anything you'd like to fix that your boss won't go for?
  9. If you had unlimited resources, how would you simplify your job?
  10. What is the least favorite part about your career?
  11. What advice (that you didn't get) would you give about your job?
  12. What took the longest to learn on your own? Why?
  13. If you had a magic wand for work, what would you wave it on?
  14. How would you scare me out of "wanting" your career?
  15. What's one thought about your job you wouldn't tell your boss?
  16. Tell me about the most painful customer experience you've had.
  17. If you were given $5,000 to spend on your job, where would you use it?
  18. When do you find yourself hesitating the most?
  19. What's your biggest professional fear?
  20. What do you think your boss's or customer's biggest fear is?
  21. Have you ever thought about spinning off? What would you do?
  22. Oh, Really? Why's That? (Don't forget to ALWAYS dig deeper).
  23. When is the last time you missed a deadline, why?
  24. What would you hire a consultant to help you with?
  25. What makes you the most nervous about your job?
  26. Who do you think your biggest competition is? Why?
  27. If you didn’t have to sleep, what would you do with the extra time?
  28. What's your favorite piece of clothing you own/owned?
  29. What hobby would you get into if time and money weren’t an issue?
  30. What would your perfect room look like?
  31. What fictional place would you most like to go to?
  32. What job would you be terrible at?
  33. When was the last time you climbed a tree?
  34. What is the most annoying habit that other people have?
  35. What skill would you like most to master?
  36. What would be the most amazing adventure to go on?
  37. What state or country do you never want to go back to?
  38. What songs have you completely memorized?
  39. What game or movie universe would you most like to live in?
  40. What do you consider to be your best find?
  41. Are you usually early or late?
  42. What pets did you have while growing up?
  43. When people come to you for help, what do they usually want help with?
  44. What takes up too much of your time?
  45. What do you wish you knew more about?
  46. What’s the best way to start the day?
  47. Who has impressed you most with what they’ve accomplished?
  48. What’s your claim to fame?
  49. What’s something you like to do the old-fashioned way?
  50. What’s your favorite book or movie? Why?
  51. How often do you people watch?
  52. What have you only recently formed an opinion about?
  53. What’s the best single day on the calendar?
  54. What are you interested in that most people haven’t heard of?
  55. What’s the farthest you’ve ever been from home?
  56. What is the most heartwarming thing you’ve ever seen?
  57. What could you give a 40-minute presentation on with absolutely no preparation?
  58. What is something you think everybody should do at least once in their lives?
  59. What’s your dream car?
  60. What’s worth spending more on to get the best?
  61. What are you most looking forward to in the next 10 years?
  62. Where’s the most interesting place you’ve been?
  63. What’s something you’ve been meaning to try but just haven’t gotten around to it?
  64. What’s the best thing that happened to you last week?
  65. What do you wish you could erase from your mind so that you could experience it for the first time again?
  66. If all jobs had the same pay and hours, what job would you like to have?
  67. How different was your life one year ago?
  68. What do you hope never changes?
  69. Why did you divide to do the work you are doing now?
  70. What’s the best way a person can spend their time?
  71. What is the luckiest thing that has happened to you?
  72. What are some things you’ve had to unlearn?
  73. What are you looking forward to in the coming months?
  74. What website do you visit most often?
  75. What one thing do you really want but can’t afford?
  76. Where do you usually go when you have time off?
  77. What is special about the place you grew up?
  78. What are you most likely to become famous for?
  79. What are you absolutely determined to do?
  80. What is the most impressive thing you know how to do?
  81. As the only human left on earth, what would you do?
  82. Who inspires you to be better?
  83. What do you want your epitaph to be?
  84. What do you think you would grow out of but haven’t?
  85. In what situation would you feel the most out of place in?
  86. What’s the dumbest thing you’ve done that actually turned out pretty well?
  87. If you had to write a book, what would it be about?
  88. What is something you will NEVER do again?
  89. What do you spend the most time thinking about?
  90. What are some of the events in your life that made you who you are?
  91. What do you wish your brain was better at doing?
  92. What is the strangest thing you have come across?
  93. What is something you are certain you’ll never experience?
  94. What are you addicted to?
  95. What is something you can never seem to finish?
  96. As you get older, what are you becoming more and more afraid of?
  97. What is one of your favorite smells?
  98. What song or artist do you like, but rarely admit to liking?
  99. What would you do if you knew you were going to die in one hour?
  100. What book impacted you the most?
  101. If life is a game like some people say, what are some of the rules?
  102. Who is your most interesting friend?
  103. What is something that your friends would consider “so you”?
  104. What risks are worth taking?
  105. What can you not get right, no matter how many times you try?
  106. What do you take for granted?
  107. What’s something you are self-conscious about?
  108. What irrational fear do you have?
  109. What’s the best advice you’ve ever received?
  110. What makes a good life?
  111. What’s the last adventure you went on?
  112. When do you feel truly “alive”?
  113. What was the most memorable gift you’ve ever received?
  114. What chapters would you separate your autobiography into?
  115. What statistic for your life would you most like to see?
  116. What’s something horrible that everyone should try at least once?
  117. Have you ever saved someone’s life?
  118. What were some of the turning points in your life?
  119. What would a mirror opposite of yourself be like?
  120. What are you really good at, but kind of embarrassed that you’re good at it?
  121. Which of your scars has the best story behind it?
  122. What’s the title of the current chapter of your life?
  123. What’s the hardest lesson you’ve learned?
  124. What mistake do you keep making again and again?
  125. What have you created that you are most proud of?
  126. If you could make a 20-second phone call to yourself at any point in your life, when would you call and what would you say?
  127. What do you have doubts about?
  128. What bends your mind every time you think about it?
  129. What’s the best thing you got from your parents?
  130. What is the “holy grail” of your life?
  131. In your group of friends, what role do you play?
  132. What’s the most immature thing that you do?
  133. What's the best and worst thing about getting older?
  134. What’s something that happened or something that someone said that changed how you view the world?
  135. What are you most likely very wrong about?
  136. What lifestyle change have you been meaning to make for a while now?
  137. If you could have a video of any one event in your life, what would you choose?
  138. What’s the most illegal thing you’ve done?
  139. What is the biggest lesson you never learned?
  140. How do you hope you’ll change as a person in the future?
  141. What lie do you tell yourself most often?
  142. How do you choose to suffer?
  143. What do you regret not doing?
  144. What gives your life meaning?
  145. What do you most often look down on people for?
  146. What bridges do you not regret burning?
  147. What are you most insecure about?
  148. How do you get in the way of your own success?
  149. What’s the one thing you did, that you really wish you could go back and undo?
on June 5, 2022
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    Reminds me of the 36 questions to fall in love experiment

    https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/36-questions-to-fall-in-love

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    I thought it will be link dumping but its good

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      Yeah. Probably because the title sounds super click-baity. Changed it to something less click-baity. List better be good. I've beeb collecting these over years 😅