Will Smith's dominant question is "How do I make this moment more magical?" Jim Kwik explains how this recurring question shaped Smith's charisma during a brain-training session in Toronto, where Smith brought hot chocolate and stories to a cold night. The words we ask ourselves direct our focus and shape reality.
So my question for you is, what's your dominant question? What question are you asking all the time that is directing the spotlight, your focus? I was doing a brain training for the actor Will Smith, and we were in Toronto, and I spent the day with him doing our brain training. And at night they were filming. It's 2 o'clock in the morning. It's February in Toronto. So it is freezing outside and they're taking breaks to reset. And I'm with his family. And during the break, Will Smith comes and he makes us all hot chocolate. Even though there's a crew that would do that, he starts cracking jokes. He starts telling stories. You know what his dominant question is? The question he asks all the time is, how do I make this moment more magical? And I was always thinking about my question is how to make it better. So I was like, well, how do you improve that? And then he came up with, how do I make this moment even more magical? What does that presuppose? That it's already magical. The words that we use in our mind direct everything in our life. If you truly understood how powerful your mind is, you wouldn't say or think something you didn't want to be true. So I realized You realize when he's bringing us hot chocolate, telling stories, cracking jokes, that Will is living his dominant question. How do I make this moment even more magical?
The Library of Minds: Brain Coach: How to Stay Sharp When AI Does the Thinking | Jim Kwik
