50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind

Source: http://www.marcandangel.com/2009/07/13/50-questions-that-will-free-your-mind/

These questions have no right or wrong answers.

Because sometimes asking the right questions is the answer.

1. How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
2. Which is worse, failing or never trying?
3. If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?
4. When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?
5. What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world?
6. If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?
7. Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing?
8. If the average human life span was 40 years, how would you live your life differently?
9. To what degree have you actually controlled the course your life has taken?
10. Are you more worried about doing things right, or doing the right things?
11. You’re having lunch with three people you respect and admire.  They all start criticizing a close friend of yours, not knowing she is your friend.  The criticism is distasteful and unjustified.  What do you do?
12. If you could offer a newborn child only one piece of advice, what would it be?
13. Would you break the law to save a loved one?
14. Have you ever seen insanity where you later saw creativity?
15. What’s something you know you do differently than most people?
16. How come the things that make you happy don’t make everyone happy?
17. What one thing have you not done that you really want to do? What’s holding you back?
18. Are you holding onto something you need to let go of?
19. If you had to move to a state or country besides the one you currently live in, where would you move and why?
20. Do you push the elevator button more than once?  Do you really believe it makes the elevator faster?
21. Would you rather be a worried genius or a joyful simpleton?
22. Why are you, you?
23. Have you been the kind of friend you want as a friend?
24. Which is worse, when a good friend moves away, or losing touch with a good friend who lives right near you?
25. What are you most grateful for?
26. Would you rather lose all of your old memories, or never be able to make new ones?
27. Is is possible to know the truth without challenging it first?
28. Has your greatest fear ever come true?
29. Do you remember that time 5 years ago when you were extremely upset?  Does it really matter now?
30. What is your happiest childhood memory?  What makes it so special?
31. At what time in your recent past have you felt most passionate and alive?
32. If not now, then when?
33. If you haven’t achieved it yet, what do you have to lose?
34. Have you ever been with someone, said nothing, and walked away feeling like you just had the best conversation ever?
35. Why do religions that support love cause so many wars?
36. Is it possible to know, without a doubt, what is good and what is evil?
37. If you just won a million dollars, would you quit your job?
38. Would you rather have less work to do, or more work you actually enjoy doing?
39. Do you feel like you’ve lived this day a hundred times before?
40. When was the last time you marched into the dark with only the soft glow of an idea you strongly believed in?
41. If you knew that everyone you know was going to die tomorrow, who would you visit today?
42. Would you be willing to reduce your life expectancy by 10 years to become extremely attractive or famous?
43. What is the difference between being alive and truly living?
44. When is it time to stop calculating risk and rewards, and just go ahead and do what you know is right?
45. If we learn from our mistakes, why are we always so afraid to make a mistake?
46. What would you do differently if you knew nobody would judge you?
47. When was the last time you noticed the sound of your own breathing?
48. What do you love?  Have any of your recent actions openly expressed this love?
49. In 5 years from now, will you remember what you did yesterday?  What about the day before that?  Or the day before that?
50. Decisions are being made right now.  The question is:  Are you making them for yourself, or are you letting others make them for you?

Please share your thoughts with us in the comments section below.

And check out these books for more thought-provoking questions:

• The Book of Questions
• If… (Questions For The Game of Life)
• The Complete Book of Questions: 1001 Conversation Starters for Any Occasion

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Bài nói chuyện thú vị về tâm lý của đàn ông, một người có Love và có Lust. Mọi người đề cao Love và coi thường khinh rẻ Lust nhưng vì không biết cách quản lý Lust nên có vấn đề, nhất trọng nền văn hóa khinh rẻ Lust như Á Đông hay Hồi giáo.

Chuyện ngoại tình cũng liên quan tới hiệu ứng “muốn”. Khi đàn ông muốn cái gì đó mà không được vợ/bạn gái công nhận, và cái muốn đó không được thỏa mãn, cảm thấy như loser trống rỗng thì đi tìm sự an ủi nơi nào khác.

The nature of mass movement – Eric Hoffer

Some Eric Hoffer’s quotes:

– ‘There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.’

–  ‘It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.’

– It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.

– In a more or less free society, the leader can retain his hold on the people only when he has blind faith in their wisdom and goodness.

– “People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.” –

Công ty Mỹ “phục vụ”

Giới kinh doanh ở Mỹ công nhận phản ứng nhanh và “phục vụ”. Tuần trước mình email cho một chủ của một công ty public(tìm được email trên Internet) bảo là tao là nhà đầu tư vào công ty mẹ của công ty mày. Tao thấy công ty mày đang làm cái này không được blah blah thế mà chú đó forward cho một ông làm về phát triển của công ty đó và ông phát triển gọi điện cho mình nói chuyện khoảng 15 phút. Một anh đồng nghiệp cũ hồi trước cũng có chiêu email cho công ty đối thủ hỏi blah blah và đo mức độ trả lời, thời gian delay để xem tình hình thế nào? 🙂

Với các công ty cha mẹ dân ở VN có khi cũng nên chủ động liên lạc với họ qua điện thoại, email, thư giấy nếu thấy cần yêu cầu cái gì nhỉ? Nói mãi rồi chắc họ cũng gẩy tay chứ không nói gì thì họ lờ đi 🙂 Nhưng nói thì cũng cần nói lễ phép 🙂

The most important things…

The most important things is to have reasonable expectations. ~ Howard Marks

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Great quote!

This quote is from a money manager but I find it’s true in so many things. 🙂