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Welcome back to a Success with Srini. Happy Friday morning to you today the first of April 2022. As I’m recording, happy Fool’s Day to you, I’m not going to fool around on this podcast for sure, I’ll be very precise, very direct to the point. And my whole goal is to deliver value. So let’s get into this. If you are a regular listener of this podcast, you heard me talk about the power of questioning. And in the past, in the recent past, I talked about how we, as humans, wake up in the morning with one key question, one dominant question on our mind. And we spend the rest of the day looking for an answer. And we do that for days and months and years, and sometimes the entire lifetime.
The majority for success, whatever the outcomes we have in our lives, can be traced down to the questions that we asked very early on. So everybody’s asking the question, that’s the truth. This morning, you woke up asking the question. Tomorrow morning, you’ll wake up asking a question. That is the truth. the question becomes is this? How can we ask empowering questions? We know, questions lead us to answers. But sometimes, you just can’t stop by asking once you have to keep on asking multiple times, numerous times sometimes. So we know questions will open up the doors to success. The point is how. And in my earlier, podcast episodes, I also mentioned that most of us, wake up in the morning, with a negative question. Why is this happening to me? Why is it that I’m the chosen one for all this pain, all this suffering? Instead of saying why we should be asking how now that I have this problem now that I’m put in the situation? How can I reinvent invent or whatever? How is a very powerful question to ask why is later if you have an opportunity to ask the question, but how opens up possibilities in the mind? Why can’t kinds of puts you into the corner of the room, not a good position to take, you need to be in the center of the room? So on the front of in the front of the room? So you need to start asking questions that start with the word how. So Socrates was known for asking questions, she spent her entire life asking questions.
If you see great philosophers, great coaches, great mentors, people who are known for greatness, you see, they were asking more questions than they were answering. If you even look into your own life today, and you go back in time, 3040 50 years, and you arrive at a point when you were three or four or five years old, the first five years of your life, you kept on asking questions, you will learn everything, by asking questions. The more you observed, the more questions you asked, the more questions you asked, the more you were an observer through questioning, as a kid, you were engaged in critical thinking, through questioning, you were inviting innovation into your life. Through questioning, you were developing confidence in yourself as a kid. And through questioning, you started communicating. This was you as a kid, all of us as kids, we did this. So what happened to us that we are not asking the right questions anymore? Why is it that we are stuck with one question? I need to somehow make money. I have to pay this bill. I need to get this promotion. I need to buy a house. These are the costs I need to get a visa or a green card or citizenship whatever. We asked that question and we keep on in that loop. We spend an infinite amount of energy and time just trying to find an answer. There is no quick answer to those questions. There is the effort needed. So in self-improvement in coaching in self-development, one of the biggest challenges is how do you help people to break this mindset. And mindset is an important critical component for any level of success in any field.
And as a coach, I struggled with it and I will time I meet somebody who has a tremendous amount of skills and talents but then they are in a wrong pattern in their thinking how How do I break this pattern? How do I rewire them mentally, so they can see a better version of themselves? challenges that I face. So my purpose of today’s podcast is that I want you to start thinking as if you are a five-year-old kid, you’re hurt, just wipe it off, you soak it, you don’t remember, you’re hurt. But as you’re playing, you’re playing as a kid, and you were hurt, all of us were hurt. As a kid, we fell down, and we never quit. We did not quit, we went back into the same game. We played the same way. We had the same enthusiasm. We had the same energy levels. Why is it that as grownups, we don’t value it anymore? What has happened to the inner child? Well, in self-improvement, and personal development, we know that the inner child is there. But why is it that we don’t activate the inner child in a meaningful way. Now, at this point, we have seen the world we have lived in enough we have enough experiences, we shouldn’t be activating the inner child. And ask those questions. See, if I could go back and ask those kinds of questions. I want to be the dominating the existing world. So my challenge to you is this. My challenge to you is, to ask questions to learn more, ask questions to observe more. Ask questions to critically engage in deeper conversations, ask questions so that he can become an innovator. Ask questions so that you can become confident as an adult. And all these things you did as a kid. That’s all for now, on this podcast, I don’t want to drag this out. You go enjoy your Friday. And I’m going to come back tomorrow. And we’ll pick up a new topic. And I’m going to expand on this.
Let’s call this today’s episode, or today’s podcast part one. And then we’ll come back to the model. And we’ll talk a little bit about how to ask great questions. And you heard me talk about Ben Franklin, also Benjamin Franklin, you start his day asking the key question, like, used to wake up and say, today is a day given to me? What will I do? What great things should I do? Or will I do it today? So that today is going to count in my life. And at the end of the day used to wrap up the day by saying I was given this wonderful day today. And Did I do anything meaningful? That would count very profound, very distinct questions. You asked that for the next 30 days, you tell me how your life is gonna change. That’s like taking full accountability for everything. Those two questions, full accountability of everything. Amazing. See, I keep saying this on this podcast, so much information. So much knowledge, so much wisdom is available, but we just don’t make the effort to just somehow seek. If you seek it’s there.
Okay, I want to stop here you go enjoy your Friday. I’ll come back and do part two of this podcast tomorrow. Stay tuned.