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Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to ask people about the best idea they never pursued, and to ask yourself that question, too.

You'll hear great ideas, and learn a lot about people, including yourself, as you do.

Today's tip is inspired by an episode of the podcast, No Stupid Questions, with Angela Duckworth and Stephen Dubner.

Duckworth recounted how the investor Faraz Dewan met Kip Charter School's co-founder Dave Levin at a party.

He asked him, what's the best idea you've never executed?

Levin said that using behavioral science to help kids improve their lives was that idea.

From that conversation grew the nonprofit Character Lab, with Dewan as board chair,

and a mission to advance scientific insights that help kids thrive.

Now, that is certainly a much bigger impact than you get out of most cocktail party chit chat.

I love that question. What's the best idea you've never executed?

Now, my guess is that Dewan knew a little bit about Levin, and when he asked that question,

perhaps he already had a hunch that his good ideas would be worth supporting.

But even if you are not planning to start a new nonprofit or business,

based on someone else's ideas, it can still be fruitful to ask about them.

For starters, asking about the best idea the other person has never pursued

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