Justin Graham
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Questions

Things I think about that I don't have answers to.

  1. If someone wanted to know how to be a good person, where would you send them?

  2. People who achieve greatness are almost invariably passionately invested in some one thing. They do a thousand things each day but behind these stand the one thing they count supreme. What is your one thing?

  3. What are you pretending to like or putting up with out of duty or obligation?

  4. If you woke up this morning having only the things you were thankful for yesterday, what would you have?

  5. A genie allows you to magically add one room to your house. The room must already exist somewhere in the world, and it can’t be something you’d normally find in a residential space. What room would you add?

  • MoMA frequency spectrum immersive room.

  1. What’s the most fun thing you’re looking forward to?

  2. What “little things” that don’t matter to most people make your day 100% better?

  3. Instead of a flag, what should the US leave on the moon to signify our visit? (besides a flying inflatable tube man)

  4. What are seemingly innocuous questions but the answers actually mean something deep?

  5. What’s a common experience for many people that you’ve never actually experienced yourself?

  6. The only dose of a drug that will save a poor woman from dying is prohibitively expensive. Should she steal it? (Ultimately the law exists for _____, I could live with myself afterward.)

  7. Imagine you had a chance to revisit a moment from your past, which moment would you choose?

  8. What’s a hill you would die on?

  9. If someone gave you a box of everything you’ve ever lost, what is the first thing you would look for?

  10. If you were in a room with everyone you have ever met, who would you look for?

  11. Set a new year’s resolution for someone other than yourself

  12. What are you overemphasizing right now?

  13. What is the most obvious problem humans haven’t figured out a simple solution for?

  • Potholes.
  • 6 buns, 8 hot dog packs.

  1. What has been the best phrase of your life so far?

  2. If you had to invest your entire life savings in one company, what would it be?

  3. You’ve been chosen to live in one of the first communities on Mars. Besides the essentials, what are you bringing?

  • Bluetooth speaker.

  1. What can you do now that you couldn’t do one year ago?

  2. If we had to switch lives for a day, what would you be the most and least excited to do as me?

  3. If you could know the truth behind any secret or mystery, which would it be?

  • Map of all secret passageways.
  • What animals are thinking.

  1. Camping is only fun when…

  2. Where in your life are you pursuing comfort?

  3. What was your “garden of eden” as a child? What is it now? That place that is magical and you can dream and wonder and is full of sweet memories.

  4. What is the one place you would want to see on the screen at an airport gate?

  5. What crazy contraption would you make to catch a criminal on the run?

  6. What is one thing you absolutely cannot do in society without someone else going first?

  • Driving on the shoulder.
  • Saying you don’t like watching sports.

  1. Does history have an arc that bends towards justice?

  2. Which one of your values would change the most if you were born into a different family?

  3. If you were able to press a button and your identity will be a blank slate, would you do it?

  4. Introduce yourself, but you’re not allowed to say where you’re from, what you do for a living, your career, ethnicity, what you studied, or what your hobbies are.

  5. What’s the most common advice you give to people?

  6. What are you afraid to tell to your partner?

  7. What makes you do the right thing?

  8. Why did the anarchists murder the single most progressive Russian emperor (Alexander II) but not his extremely conservative successor?

  9. If you could put anyone’s face on money who would it be and what would be the value of the bill?

  10. Is there anything that you are afraid of knowing?

  11. What’s the most complex thing you could invent if you were dropped into 1735 with what you know now about the world?

  12. If your stomach could handle one thing that it can’t digest now, what would it be?

  13. What are 3 words you say that always put a genuine smile on your face?

  14. What clothing item from your childhood are you hoping has a renaissance?

  15. If you didn’t have to make any money how would you spend your days?

  16. What are you absolutely certain is true?

  17. How has your ideal Saturday changed since two years ago?

  18. If you got your five year old self a camera, what would the pictures be of?

  19. What’s the most important thing regarding customer service?

  20. What should the eighth deadly sin be?

  21. At what age should you have it all together?

  22. Is love better expressed through words or an embrace?

  23. How many wheels of an 18-wheeler can you hang off the edge of a cliff before it falls off?

  24. If a statue was erected of you, what pose would you be in?

  25. Would Newton have the inner right to sacrifice a half-dozen people for the sake of humanity knowing his findings?

  26. What word would you invent that should be added to the dictionary?

  • Freshterday (day old).

  1. Is a secret still a secret if everyone knows individually, but preserved to everybody else as a secret?

  2. What are two things you would congratulate someone for?

  3. What’s the worst piece of advice you’ve ever received?

  4. Word association: people are; spotify; addicted; I love; sports; food…

  5. If you had a superpower, what would it be?

  • Healing people, or luck.

  1. What do you hope to be your last thought at the time of death?

  2. If you could be the first to do something, what would it be?

  • Farm the first grape.

  1. What is the buoy to which you cling?

  2. Is love worth cultivating even if it comes to nothing?

  3. Which side of your mouth do you store sunflower seeds in?

  4. What would be the first thing you stopped doing if you found out you have six months to live?

  5. What have we grown so accustomed and numb to in our culture that may be useful to reevaluate?

  6. What decisions do you need to make and how can you speed up the timeline?

  7. Do you think in terms of emotions, actually feeling them, or emotional labels?

  • I feel some type of way and then label it, which is why I get frustrated I can’t communicate it sometimes.

  1. How much do you think about the large hydrogen collider?

  2. If you carved your name four feet high in the bark of a tree, how high would it be after thirty years?

  3. Who are my season ticket holders? Who have the box seats? Who buys a ticket to resell it? Who has a ticket and doesn’t come? Who buys nosebleeds?

  4. Can we learn moderation before we extinct ourselves? (the bivnic effect)

  5. We build what we measure. What should you measure yourself by right now?

  6. Does it matter how the bread was made if it is delicious?

  7. Is saying what you mean the same as meaning what you say?

  8. What would you name your personal font?

  9. If you had to choose one cultural figure as an ornament on your Christmas tree, who would it be?

  10. What if humans had more than three types of cone receptors in our retina?

  11. Are persistent and obstinate people actually behaving differently? Or are they doing the same thing, and we just label them later as persistent or obstinate depending on whether they turned out to be right or not?

  • There is something annoying about the obstinate that's not simply due to being mistaken… they won't listen. The persistent are like boats whose engines can't be throttled back. The obstinate are like boats whose rudders can't be turned.
  1. What are things that heal you but aren’t medicine?
  • Sound of fire crackling at a campfire.
  • Chugging ice cold water after a workout.
  • Handfuls of ingredients to my mouth while I wait for dinner to finish.

  1. Finish the sentence: “the best summer day ends with…”

  2. When was the last time you were pleasantly surprised?

  3. What is an example of something you invented?

  4. Can your car run out of honk?

  5. What creative thing do I focus on in order to generate ideas for my main focus?

  6. If you were stuck in a foreign country's prison who would you call first? Who would call you first?

  7. What holiday should we make a bigger deal about?

  8. If we met a year from now what would we be celebrating?

  9. What is the “no” you keep postponing?

  10. What commitments have you made that you longer believe in?

  11. Who’s your most impressive friend and why?

  12. Do men from the extraordinary class have the right to transgress the law and commit any crime?

  13. When was the last time you read for a full 90 minutes without checking your phone or getting distracted?

  14. What’s a skill you learned while you were young but didn’t come to appreciate until much older?

  15. What is something it usually takes a long time to figure out about you?

  16. What is your favorite time of day?

  17. What outfit would you wear everyday if no one would notice you repeated?

  18. What are you borderline overconfident about?

  19. What is your endgame?

  20. If you were the main character of the movie of your life and there was an audience watching your movie, what would the audience be screaming at you to do? What is it and what needs to change?

  21. If a good CEO got to run your life for a day, what is the first thing they would eliminate?

  22. What is your personal recession indicator?

  • When my friends start learning to sew or when steak night turns into chicken thighs.

  1. Are you working on anything exciting recently?

  2. What would you do if you had the keys to an OrangeTheory for a night?

  3. What is it that you collect?

  4. What very important truth do very few people agree with you on?

  5. Who is today’s Cassandra figure?” It refers to somebody who is right about the future but has answers we don’t want to hear. The idea comes from Greek Mythology, where nobody believes (or likes) Cassandra even though she can see the future. Apollo grants her the gift of prophecy but turns it into a curse when she does not return his love.

  6. What is the biggest thing in your life that you just kinda casually fell into and would you have made a conscious decision to do it if you’d known in advance everything you know now?

  7. What small change could you make to your surroundings that would steer you toward good habits and away from distractions?

  8. What is a quality that seems to run through generations of your family for better or for worse?

  9. If you had to live inside the world of a movie—but not as the main character, as a side protagonist—what would it be and why?

  10. How much of your camera roll do you really remember?

  11. What is it you do to train that is comparable to a pianist practicing scales?

  12. What’s a transcendent experience that everyone should have at least once?

  13. What’s your chicken and broccoli content? (Slim down everything but won’t give this up.)

  14. If you could have one full-time staff member, what would they do?

  15. What’s a lesson you need to keep relearning?

  16. What’s a piece of advice you give to others but struggle to abide by?

  17. What are your arbitrary rules you have for yourself?

  18. If you could take a year off to work on something that probably wouldn't be important but would be really interesting, what would it be?

  19. What can’t you stand, and what can’t you quit?

  20. What’s your most commonly misperceived thing about you?

  21. Who would I be in the absence of my fears?