Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 2197. As many of you know,

I am a sucker for really good questions. I just love questions that cause people to pause to think.

And just yesterday, actually, somebody asked me a question that really lit me up he goes

Justin you're in the business of asking questions what are some of your favorite questions that

you like to ask athletes and coaches and I had never been asked that before what are some of my

favorite questions and I had never really paused to think about it,

but there are some that I go to all the time. And here are the questions that I told this person.

Number one, in no particular order, in no particular order. A lot of people I work with are very

experienced and they're

experts in their domain. And so one question I love to ask is, what is something that you used to

believe that you no longer believe based on your experience? That question always causes people

to pause and to really think to push back on their old assumptions and to realize that they

indeed change their minds. Another question I love to ask is, what are your fears, your worries,

your insecurities, your weaknesses? This demographic that I work with, they're very protective.

They are strong personalities. They're very confident. They're very

competent. However, I'm grateful for the opportunity to be able to sit in a space and provide a

space where they can be vulnerable and open and transparent and share with me and with

themselves to articulate some of the things that they do fear and they do worry about.

And we don't just stop there. We talk about what they do to manage those fears, to manage the stress,

to manage the weaknesses and insecurities because they've all created some kind of system

in order to mitigate and create safety margins for those

things so that they can perform at a really high level.

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