Go Down the Rabbit Hole of Questions

If we want the future to be different from the past, we can’t simply be looking for answers.

We need to pursue profound questions that haven’t been asked or questions that cannot be answered – for they contain a paradox or contradiction.

Ask yourself: “What question, if you had an answer to, would set you free?”

I think many questions do not have and will not have a definite answer. Yet I can’t help but wonder if many (or even most) have lackluster answers or none because we stopped asking the questions.

So that’s how the Quest for Questions was born.

The quest contains within itself 4-sub quests:

Quest for a Life Well-Lived
Quest for Excellence & Mastery
Quest for Beauty, Romance & Adventure
Quest for Truth & Wisdom

Which ultimately lead to Unity & Belonging.

And the final question:

*What is Transcendent – what unites humans across time & space?*

Sapere Aude, my friends!
Dare to know. Dare to be wise.

Naulius in Verba → Don’t take anybody’s word for it. Figure it out yourself.

Education discovers an increasing richness in the past because it sees what is unfinished there. Training regards the past as finished and the future as to be finished. Education leads towards self-discovery. Training leads toward a final self-definition. Training repeats a completed past in the future. Education continues an unfinished past into the future.”
– James P. Carse

Quest for a Life Well-Lived

Quest for Excellence & Mastery

The Quest

Quest for Truth & Wisdom

Quest for Adventure, Beauty & Romance

12 Favorite Questions

What is transcendent - unites humans across time & space, and why does it no longer keep us together❓How do we bring it back?

Who are you.. really? And how to get to know thyself on a deep visceral level, so that you can maximize your gifts and beware of your pitfalls.

Who are we stripped of our stories & conditioning - what's the nature of human nature and how do different cultures influence it ?

How might we decrease competition AND increase collaboration & innovation, on both individual and group level?

What’s the art & science of clear-thinking... seeing reality for what it is (and isn’t) distinguishing truth from bullshit? What mental models are necessary to grasp it?

What is the art of asking the right questions...timeless, eternal questions and how do we find more inspired answers to them?

What is the difference between work & play, and is life to be treated seriously, playfully or both ❓

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What mindsets, skills , tools and habits do you need to master the art of entrepreneurship & growing a profitable value-creating business?

What’s the role of magic, alchemy and trickery... and how do we bring some of it back to our overly-logical world?

What makes our hearts stop? What is the role of beauty, awe, and wonder in our lives?

What does it take to access & develop your dark-side and masculine edge to act with courage & conviction ❓

Why do we crave freedom and power but love our servitude...how can we become creators and leaders not mere consumers & conformists?

“You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while, there will be a hit, and people will say, ‘How did he do it? He must be a genius!”

– Richard Feynman

“If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”

Guiding Principles

An ounce of wisdom is worth a pound of knowledge.
What matters, before what works.
Try to be less wrong… the painting is never quite finished.
Why comes before the how – there’s nothing more practical than a good theory.
Unusual success cannot lie in doing the ordinary.
On Bullshit & Bullshitters
“There’s nothing new under the sun”
Radical ideas, radical guests…- radical from the Latin “radicalis”, meaning to “proceed from the root” or “get back to its root”
Logic is overrated as compared to rhetoric (appeal to emotions).
Beware of the man with a hammer who sees nails everywhere.
Approach guests & ideas with ignorance, not knowledge.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Profound questions over practical answers
Follow the seed of curiosity.
The opposite of a good idea can be another good idea
Seek contradictory perspectives & ideas.
Conventional wisdom, and what works are two different things.
Sapere Aude – Dare to Be Wise / Dare to Know
Map is not the territory – words are not the Thing.
The size of your life is the size of your questions (problems).
Contribution > Success
Truth is found in nuance.