The Power of Questions with Cal Fussman
Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik
Jim Kwik, Your Brain Coach, Founder www.KwikLearning.com
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🗓️ 8 June 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
What is the secret to asking great questions?
If you’re a long time or a new listener to my training, you know that I always tell people that the questions are the answer. If you want a greater understanding and comprehension when you read, then ask better questions.
In today’s episode, we’re going to talk about how to ask better questions that will give you better answers. And I can’t think of a better person to talk about this than my friend, Cal.
Calvin "Cal" Fussman is an American journalist and author. He is a Writer at Large for Esquire magazine, known for the What I've Learned column, where he interviews leaders in various fields, which have included Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Jack Welch, Robert De Niro, Clint Eastwood, Al Pacino, George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Bruce Springsteen, Dr. Dre, Quincy Jones, Woody Allen, Barbara Walters, Pelé, Yao Ming, Serena Williams, John Wooden, and Muhammad Ali.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Quick Brain, Bites-sized brain hacks for busy people who want to learn faster and achieve more. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm your coach, Jim Quick. |
| 0:08.0 | Free. You're mine. Let's imagine if we could access 100% of our brain's capacity. |
| 0:15.0 | I wasn't high, wasn't wired, just clear. |
| 0:18.0 | I knew what I needed to do and how to do it. |
| 0:20.0 | I know Kung Fu. |
| 0:22.0 | Show me. Do I know Kung Fu. |
| 0:24.0 | Show me. |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome back QuickBrain. So what is the secret to asking great questions? |
| 0:32.0 | If you're a long time listener or more of a new listener to my trainings, you know I always tell people that questions are the answer. |
| 0:39.7 | That if you want greater understanding, greater comprehension when you read, ask better questions. |
| 0:45.9 | And so that's going to be the topic of today's podcast. |
| 0:49.4 | And I can't think of one better person than our guest today. Our guest is Cal Fussman. |
| 0:55.2 | Cal, thanks for being here. |
| 0:56.5 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:58.0 | Cal, I'm such a big admirer of your work. You've interviewed every icon imaginable. Everyone from Gorbachev to Muhammad Ali. And I remember |
| 1:09.6 | you specifically, when you had spoken at our events you were telling your story |
| 1:15.0 | about Muhammad Ali and he had just passed. Yeah it was like the day after and so it |
| 1:20.4 | was really moving moment for me to get up and tell that story. |
| 1:26.0 | What I'm going to do is I'm going to put a link in our podcast notes to your presentation |
| 1:32.0 | because that blew away our clients in that audience. |
| 1:36.0 | Mohammed Ali is such an icon, you know, in terms of what he symbolizes for to so many of us and your tribute to him. It was really legendary. So thank you for that. |
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