In this episode, we ask:

• What are the actual steps of thinking?
  
• Do you have a process for your thoughts?
  
• Do we already know it all?
  
• How does one reverse engineer?
  
• Have you read The Road Less Stupid by Keith Cunningham?
  
• Would you like to avoid the arrival syndrome?
  
• What can we improve?
  
• How much money would you have in your hands right now, if you could unwind the worst three financial decisions you’ve ever made?
  
• What about doing fewer dumb things?
  
• What about reading and thinking?
  
• What is the skillset?
  
• What about taking 30-45 minutes centered around a high value question?
  
• What about pain avoidance?
  
• What are the core disciplines?
  
• Could we all become a bit better at thinking?
  
• How many arguments might we avoid?
  
• How much would it improve our BMI or waistline?
  
• How about adding zeros to your net worth?
  
• What is the unasked question?
  
• What is the right answer?
  
• What is the real problem?
  
• What about the right question?
  
• How might I ______ …. so I can _________ … ?
  
• Would you like to hear Episode 122?
  
• How might you separate the problem from the symptom?
  
• What are the biggest problems?
  
• What about adventures in missing the point?
  
• How is the root problem different from the symptom?
  
  • What are the possible reasons I’m noticing this symptom?
    
  • What is not happening, that if it did happen would cause the perceived gap to narrow or disappear? 
    
  • What is happening, that if it stopped happening would cause the perceived gap to narrow or disappear? 
    
  
  
• Is this an easy task?
  
• What about brutal honesty and penetrating questions?
  
• What about checking your unexamined assumptions?
  
• Where have I been substituting my opinions for real facts?
  
• What do I not see?
  
• What about considering the second order consequences?
  
  • What is the downside?
    
  • What is the upside?
    
  • Can I live with the downside?
    
  
  
• What about examining the unintended consequences?
  
• What about creating the machine?
  
• What about the change that will close the gap?
  
• What about getting closer to our desired outcome?
  
• What about a new strategy?
  
• How might you use the skill of thinking to your advantage?
  
• How might you get to the root and take decisive action?
  
• Will you sit down by yourself and think?
  
• Would you like to meet with Mark?