ITL239: Want to Be the One They Choose? Have These "Little Bitty Questions" Ready
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2016
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
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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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective |
| 0:06.5 | with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. |
| 0:10.3 | Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:13.2 | Hi, and welcome to In the Loop with Andy Andrews. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm your host, David Loy. |
| 0:18.0 | Andy, thanks for joining us today. |
| 0:19.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:20.5 | Thank you, David. |
| 0:21.3 | We love doing these |
| 0:23.0 | when you happen to be in town. |
| 0:25.0 | I love doing these here. |
| 0:27.1 | Yes, |
| 0:27.4 | we're in Franklin sitting across the table |
| 0:28.8 | from each other. |
| 0:29.4 | And a few weeks ago, |
| 0:30.3 | you'll remember, |
| 0:31.0 | in a podcast that aired several weeks back, |
| 0:35.2 | you asked an interesting question |
| 0:36.8 | of the listeners. You asked people to not cheat, |
| 0:43.9 | but to just describe what they think I look like. Yes. Yes. All right. So Andy, we've had a few |
| 0:51.4 | interesting responses to that question, but one specifically stood out to you. |
| 0:56.6 | And I've brought Matt, our audio producer, over here so that he can tell us what that one response was. |
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