12 prompts · take your time
Deep questions.
Prompts for the things that rarely fit into ordinary small talk: identity, fear, enough, and change.
Use these when there is time to listen. Anyone can pass, pause, or answer later.
- What belief have you outgrown?
- What does enough look like in your life?
- Which version of yourself are you becoming?
- What are you protecting your time for?
- What do you wish people asked you about more often?
- Which fear has taught you something useful?
- What would you choose if nobody could judge the result?
- What does success feel like beyond achievement?
- Which part of your life deserves more patience?
- What truth became clearer as you got older?
- When do you feel most like yourself?
- What are you ready to make simpler?
How to use them
Depth needs room.
These prompts work better in a quiet conversation than in a fast party round. Silence is part of the answer.
Do not turn a response into advice unless the person asks for it. Curiosity is usually more useful than a solution.
One honest question is enough for an evening; there is no need to finish the list.