The most important question

What is the most important question you've ever been asked? Yeah, I don't know either. Or at least I haven't thought about it in a long time.

Polina Pompliano shared on her substack how being asked "What does success mean to you?" changed her life. It was one question that has a million little questions sprout from it. What do you value most? Why do you do what you do? What drives you and what satisfies you? Etc.

She took to Twitter and asked people about the most important question they've ever been asked. Here are a few of them:

“Which of my current views would I disagree with if I were born in a different country or generation?"

“If you woke up tomorrow with no memory of your past but you could still function as a relatively normal human, what would you do with your new start?”

“If you are so smart, why aren’t you happy?”

“What have you changed your mind about lately?”

“Would you do this if you weren't being paid?”

“What makes you come alive?”

“If this had been my last week alive, am I satisfied with how I spent my time?"

“Then what?”

"Mummy, should this be my decision or yours?" (my 7-year-old)

“Do you want to win or to be right?”

“What’s the one thing that you wish someone would ask you…that no one is asking you?”

“Would you rather nudge 100 people or nurture 10?”

“In what ways are you complicit in creating the conditions that you say you don't want?”

“How is avoiding to do __________ serving you?”

“Would you rather have the ability to look into your future or to change your past?”

Boy, some of these are pretty good. And if I weren't so stinking tired today I might tackle one. It's going to have to wait for another day.

Until then... what's a life-changing question you've been asked??