Asking the right questions

I always believed that asking the right questions is a skill which can earn you a living. A Prof at HBS confessed in class that he gets paid the big bucks for asking the right questions at the right time.

While I was working my arse off a couple of years ago, I had curtailed this natural instinct of mine of asking the right questions. I was more of a -let's-get-this-thing-done kind of a guy.

Now, I'm back in an environment where I feel at home asking questions of me and, when permitted, of my peers.

Here is a list of questions. Pretty useful ones. Need not necessarily be answered immediately. Some need not be answered for some time. Infact, some need not be answered at all and the best use of them is only to think about them in the back of one's mind.

1. Have you found what you love?
2. Are you at peace?
3. What activity would you immediately do if there was no constraint of money?
4. What would you immediately do if you had a real constraint of time?
5. What is your biggest mistake and why?
6. What do you value the most?
7. Who do you idolize and why?
8. Do you have productive hobbies?
9. Who are you jealous of? What is the one thing that you would do to remove this jealousy?
10. What is the one thing that you would change about yourself?