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Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as a dinner guest?

What would constitute a perfect day for you?

For what in your life do you feel most grateful?

These are questions from a well-known New York Times article published a number of years

ago called the 36 questions that lead to love.

Now these 36 questions were actually written by social psychologist Arthur Aaron as a way

to get to know somebody well.

Their prompts that force you to deeply reflect on what really matters to you and what your

response could mean for your relationships with others.

I remember reading these questions when they were first published and thinking what a powerful

exercise.

I've incorporated them into my research and these days I've been wondering how can we

use questions like these in other aspects of our lives, like the workplace.

What is the benefit of this type of reflection and how can we use it more regularly in our

daily lives?

I'm Madu Backinola, this is Ted Business.

Our speaker today is Paul Catchlove.

Paul has had many different jobs, but he says the one thing that has connected all these

jobs is his commitment to reflection.

He believes that everyone can use reflection as a practice to improve our lives at home

and at work.

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