Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

I think questions are crucial. You know, it's kind of funny because I spent a lot of time

writing about these ideas and trying to share what I learned with, you know, with habits and

improvement, decision making, productivity and all that. And I think it's easy for that stuff to kind of come across as like advice. But I'm not really trying to give people advice. I'm just trying to like lay out a toolkit and say, hey, here's all the strategies. Here's all the tools. Let's lay them all the table. And then you can choose which one's the best fit for you. Like I don't really have much interest in telling people what to do. I'm more just trying to, like, share all the strategies. But the other problem with advice is that it's kind of brittle in the sense that it's very dependent on context. You know, like people, someone can give you actually very good advice. They can give you like an idea that genuinely worked for them.

But if your context is different, if the timing or the situation is different or you have different resources, different strengths, it still might not be a good fit for you.

Questions, however, are the opposite. Questions, whereas advice is brittle and context dependent,

questions are flexible and adaptable, and they shift.

They can naturally transform based on the context.

So for example, one question you could ask yourself, like somebody could give you really good advice,

so to speak, on what workout program to follow.

Or you could just have a question and you ask yourself, what would a healthy person do?

And if you keep walking around life asking yourself, what would a healthy person do? You start to

notice all sorts of things based on your current situation that maybe you could do. And it's much more

flexible and adaptable than just trying to follow one strict workout program, which may not work if you have a knee injury or if you don't have enough time that day or for any number of reasons.

Right.

So I do really like questions. And you're right that I had to ask myself better questions to get better answers.

I had to ask myself better questions to kind of get myself in a better mindset.

And there are a few questions that I really like

that I keep coming back to.

And I think maybe, maybe anybody listening to this

will find it useful as well.

So the first question is what am I optimizing for?

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