5 Questions that Will Change Your Life

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
All right, there's this amazing book called Getting Everything You Can Out Of All You've Got. I read it a few years ago and it changed my life.
And the reason I loved it was because it basically talks about how to get and make more money using things that you already have.
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So I haven't seen any of these questions. So it started out from a tweet where someone said like, here's 10 questions to get to know people. Is that right?

**Shaan Puri** (1:09)
Yeah, listener of the pod and I think your friend Blake, Blake Berg, I think is his name. He had tweeted out a thing like, you know, whatever.
There are many questions, but few will change your life. Here's 10 questions that will change your life. And you know, thread goes viral. So normally it's kind of like eye roll.

**Sam Parr** (1:26)
No, it's good. And there's this thing, Ben, you'll have to look it up. Again, no research here. There's this thing I remember years ago. It was called like the New York Times, like 21 questions.
And it was like, here, ask these 21 questions.

**Shaan Puri** (1:39)
To your partner, right?

**Sam Parr** (1:40)
Well, on a first date, I thought. And it was like, here's how you get intimate with people. And like, as a single 21 year old, I read that. I was like, oh, like, here's how I can hook up with girls.
And I remembered those questions and they're very similar to what these guys' questions are. But it was like, when did your father make you cry?
Or like, it was like pretty deep questions like that. And so I'm done with these questions.

**Shaan Puri** (2:09)
So I actually read these questions, and I was like, these are actually good questions, but the way he presented it, I think, no offense, this is how most people do Twitter. It's like, here's some general advice or some general questions. What's interesting to me is not the question, but it's kind of seeing somebody struggle with their answer to that question. So for example, he would ask a question like, and I'll give you the first question, which is gonna come out here in a second. So Ben, read question number one, and I'll explain how he tweeted it and how I think we should answer it instead.
Read question one.

**Sam Parr** (2:41)
Question one is, in what areas of my life am I settling?

**Shaan Puri** (2:44)
Okay, so what areas of my life am I settling? That's a powerful question. It's a good thought provoking question. Now, the rest of his tweet was like, just enough or just okay is not good enough. Identify the areas you like, you're just settling. So to me, that's the part where it was like, no, no, no, Blake, I wanna hear your answer.
You tell me, if you're gonna put out one of these bullshit ass threads, that's like, you know, generic, generic, generic thread to try to get likes.
I think that the next level of this like bullshit thread thing is people gonna get a little more vulnerable. They're gonna put their actual answers in the thread rather than general advice.

**Sam Parr** (3:18)
Who's invented this theme I'm seeing? So like Upworthy was like, here's 10 things, you're not gonna believe number seven. This new one that I'm seeing on Twitter is, there's 8,000 of this thing, here's the four best.

**Shaan Puri** (3:30)
Eight billion humans on this earth. Not all of them are worth following. Here's my 11 friends that are worth following.