I’ve been working on a number of different projects simultaneously. I don’t recommend it. It isn’t the kind of thing most sane people do. However, it is a very long, very strong thread that runs consistently throughout my life.
It isn’t always productive, but when it is the profound change that can occur as a result is dramatic and that’s where I seem to find myself right now.
One of the projects I am focused on is creating awareness and interest for Misfire: What to Do When Things Aren’t Running on All Cylinders. In other words, marketing. And, one of the tools we’re looking at is interviews with successful podcasters.
I’m a firm believer in ‘knowing the terrain.’ One of the central principles in Sun Tzu’s, The Art of War. In this case, knowing the terrain means getting a feel for the style of the interviewer and the substance of the questions you are likely to be confronted with.
In studying prior podcasts, you develop a sense of what’s coming along with the opportunity to think about how you might answer similar questions. While I was doing that, I wondered why we wait to be asked the kind of probing questions that could very easily make a difference in someone else’s life — if not in our own.
The answer is, we don’t have to wait!
We can ask ourselves the very same questions. Probing questions. Difficult questions guaranteed to reveal answers that could send our own lives in a thousand different directions resulting in a thousand new and different ways to succeed.
What kind of questions?
You can find a few in the video.