On this week’s episode, I’m answering a listener question on how to ask exceptional questions to facilitate great conversations.

 

If you can figure out how other people make subconscious choices, you will stand out.

• You are competing.
• I don’t care if you have an hourly job—you’re an entrepreneur.
• If you don’t think you’re an entrepreneur, then you’re closer to getting fired than you should be.
• The competition that really makes a difference is not the obvious kind that’s sitting right in front of you.

 

Most people are only concerned with how to tell people something, but communication is a two-way street.

• Ask questions that really pertain to the person you’re talking to.
• Find a way to edify and encourage.
• Somebody who is a great communicator and question-asker is more valuable.

 

Chart your path.

• Write down three or four questions whose answers you likely know already and prepare a response that will immediately connect the answers with somebody you know.
• For instance, ask someone where they’re from and have something to say about the answer.
• Read about the different states and find out what the most visited places are, what the big football teams are, the biggest problems, myths, etc.
• It’s not faking it if you’re learning and getting better.

 

Tune in to hear a surprise interruption from one of the young Andrews boys, which offers up a good example of how they speak to their father.

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