The Weekly Discovery Challenge asks us to write about “…a moment in which someone asked you a question you weren’t sure how to answer, whether because you didn’t know, were too uncomfortable, or thought you might offend or confuse the other person…” in Tough Questions.
So I scratched me head and racked me brains… tough questions, tough questions… Unfortunately, the scratching and the racking didn’t yield much… But then, I remembered a TedTalk on “Big Talk”. So instead of ransacking my unyielding brains, I did a google search on the TedTalk on the Big Talk.
Kalina [in the pic above] from the “Make Big Talk” speaks about ditching the small talks and instead heading straight to the big talk. Imagine walking up to a complete stranger and asking them point blank what they want to do before they die. In her site, she has some candid videos of what happens when she does the big talk. Her idea of making big talks and skipping the small talks is thought-provoking and also gives an unconventional spin to the “courtesy” filling-in-the-silence small-talks, that we have been ordered to do for ages.
So what would be better – making meaningless small talks with strangers who you meet ever so briefly OR stick to the small talks… the conventional “small inner voice” may even protest… Then there is –> how would I react to such someone asking me Tough Questions right from the get-go. Would I be kind enough to pleasantly respond or would I shout back and become abusive in protest.
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