Your secret talent that no one knows or appreciates about you.

To get the best out of my conversations with guests on The Guiding Voice podcast and also to let our audience know the other/personal side of the guest, about 20 months ago, we introduced Rapid-fire questions in our conversations.

These questions are not to put our guests on spot but to understand their thought processes. There are no right or wrong answers here or good or bad answers. Because everyone is different and their thoughts are diverse.

At times, we get crisp answers, and sometimes lengthy answers.

I want all the readers of this blog to ponder about what answers you would give if you were asked these questions :)

1. What’s the weirdest thing that you’ve ever eaten?
2. Invisibility or Super strength and why?
3. What’s the naughtiest thing that you have done in your childhood?
4. Your favorite childhood memory
5. If you were to change your name, what would it be?
6. What do you like the most about yourself?
7. What are your pet peeves?
8. What’s your hidden talent?
9. what is the first thing that you notice in someone?
10. What would you do if you win a billion-dollar lottery?
11. If you were to act in a remake movie? Which character would you choose?
12. A person that influenced you the most?
13. What is your favorite movie?
14. A must-read book for everyone
15. If you were to live someone else’s life, who would it be?
16. What’s one life-changing incident?
17. If you were to change something in the past, what would it be?
18. If you were to play a cartoon character, which one would you choose?
19. What was your childhood fantasy?
20. What’s your best dream?
21. What is your favorite word in a foreign language?
22. If you were sent to a deserted island, what are three things that you would carry with you?
23. Your favorite vacation spot?
24. On a typical Friday evening, you will see me…
25. On a Sunday morning, you will see me doing…
26. What is the funniest moment in your life?
27. If you are given a chance to live on another planet, which one would you choose?
28. What was your last search on Google?
29. Who has been your inspiration?
30. If you were to have lunch with three people dead or alive, whom would you choose?
31. What’s your favorite failure?
32. What is the weirdest thing that you have googled?

and my favorite — a common question to all the guests

33. What’s one electronic gadget or a fantasy gadget that you’d like to see or invent yourself?

And there are many more questions.

I get amazed by the variety of answers that I get from my guests in every interview.

If you haven’t tuned into The Guiding Voice podcast, it’s the time to find out answers to these questions and many more interesting questions that have made our guests stand on their toes.

Feel free to use them not only to break the ice and get the conversation going but also as a way to gather powerful insights from people whom you interact with, your leaders, your mentors, and people you admire. But do not forget to capture notes! Golden nuggets of wisdom will definitely come out of such a conversation.

Also, please leave some questions that you’d like me to ask my guests in future interviews.

Thanks for reading.

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