Adam MarkelInternational Keynote Speaker On Resilience

The Question You Should Be Asking Your Team #shorts

Name: The Question You Should Be Asking Your Team #shorts
Uploaded: 2024-02-29T01:00:24+00:00
Duration: 45 s
Channel: Adam Markel
Description: A short spoken piece by Adam Markel arguing that the conventional small-talk question “How are you?” is outdated for today’s context. He suggests…

29 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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A short spoken piece by Adam Markel arguing that the conventional small-talk question “How are you?” is outdated for today’s context. He suggests replacing it with, “What are you doing?”—specifically asking how people are spending their free time—to invite more meaningful responses and connection. The clip is conversational and anecdotal.

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They just say, how you doing? So back and forth till somebody says, okay, I got enough. It's the wrong question today. I get it. I get why we ask it. Because we have a social contract that says, oh, you're not going to say, you're really asking me, how much time have you got? And let me sit down and tell you it's the wrong question. For the world that we're in at this moment, we need to ask a different question, which is why now, with these glasses, I look a little more like this guy Stanley Tucci. I guess at least this is what I'm told when drinks show up at the table in the restaurants my wife and I go to. The question we have to be asking now is, what are you doing? What are you doing with your free time?