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  • Tell us about a skill you learned from someone unexpected.

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  • If you could send one piece of advice back in time to yourself aged ten, what would it be?

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  • What’s the worst piece of advice you’ve ever received?

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  • Describe a moment when you surprised yourself.

    Personal ExperienceEasy
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  • Describe the best team you’ve ever been part of and what made it work.

    Personal ExperienceEasy
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  • Describe the most unexpected friendship you’ve ever formed and why it worked.

    Personal ExperienceEasy
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  • Describe your experience learning to drive or cycle.

    Personal ExperienceEasy
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  • Describe your most memorable encounter with an animal.

    Personal ExperienceEasy
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  • Describe your most memorable experience as a customer.

    Personal ExperienceEasy
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  • Describe your most memorable meal.

    Personal ExperienceEasy
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  • Describe your most memorable weather experience.

    Personal ExperienceEasy
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  • Tell us about a time you got lost.

    Personal ExperienceEasy
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  • What habit have you picked up recently that you wish you hadn’t?

    Personal ExperienceEasy
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  • What’s the earliest memory you can recall clearly?

    Personal ExperienceEasy
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  • What’s the most impulsive purchase you’ve ever made?

    Personal ExperienceEasy
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  • What’s the most spontaneous thing you’ve ever done?

    Personal ExperienceEasy
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  • What’s the most valuable skill you’ve learned that wasn’t taught in school?

    Personal ExperienceEasy
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  • What’s the strangest coincidence you’ve experienced?

    Personal ExperienceEasy
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  • Which household chore would you be most embarrassed to admit you have never done?

    Personal ExperienceEasy
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  • Describe a moment when everything went wrong but turned out right.

    Personal ExperienceMedium
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  • Describe a moment when your assumptions about someone turned out to be completely wrong.

    Personal ExperienceMedium
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  • Describe a teacher who had a significant impact on your life.

    Personal ExperienceMedium
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  • Describe your first day at a new job or school.

    Personal ExperienceMedium
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  • Describe your most memorable interaction with an elderly person.

    Personal ExperienceMedium
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  • Tell us about a mistake you made that actually led to something better than your original plan.

    Personal ExperienceMedium
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  • Tell us about a risk you took that paid off.

    Personal ExperienceMedium
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  • Tell us about a skill you learned from someone unexpected.

    Personal ExperienceMedium
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  • Tell us about a time you broke or lost something valuable.

    Personal ExperienceMedium
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  • Tell us about a time you got exactly what you wished for.

    Personal ExperienceMedium
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  • Tell us about a time you had to admit you didn’t know something.

    Personal ExperienceMedium
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  • Tell us about a time you had to break a rule.

    Personal ExperienceMedium
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  • Tell us about a time you had to fake confidence.

    Personal ExperienceMedium
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  • Tell us about a time you had to improvise.

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  • Tell us about a time you made someone’s day better.

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  • Tell us about a time you were completely unprepared.

    Personal ExperienceMedium
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  • What single habit would most improve your quality of life?

    Personal ExperienceMedium
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  • What story from your life do you most enjoy telling others?

    Personal ExperienceMedium
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  • What was your favourite hiding place as a child?

    Personal ExperienceMedium
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  • What’s one skill you wish you’d learned earlier in life, and how would it have changed your path?

    Personal ExperienceMedium
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  • What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?

    Personal ExperienceMedium
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  • What’s the kindest thing a stranger has ever done for you?

    Personal ExperienceMedium
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  • What’s the luckiest thing that’s ever happened to you?

    Personal ExperienceMedium
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  • What’s the most creative solution you’ve come up with?

    Personal ExperienceMedium
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  • What’s the most interesting place you’ve ever lived or stayed?

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  • What’s the most trouble you got into as a child?

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  • What’s the most unusual job or task you’ve ever done?

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  • What’s the most valuable lesson you learned the hard way?

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  • What’s the most valuable thing you’ve learned from a child?

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  • What’s the worst advice you’ve ever received and how did you realise it was wrong?

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  • What’s something you used to believe that you no longer do, and what changed your mind?

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  • Describe a memorable wedding you’ve attended.

    SeasonalEasy
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  • Describe your ideal New Year’s Eve celebration.

    SeasonalEasy
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  • Describe your ideal birthday celebration.

    SeasonalEasy
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  • Describe your ideal family gathering.

    SeasonalEasy
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  • Describe your perfect summer day.

    SeasonalEasy
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  • How do you approach milestone anniversaries?

    SeasonalEasy
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  • How do you approach milestone birthdays?

    SeasonalEasy
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  • How do you celebrate learning something new?

    SeasonalEasy
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  • How do you celebrate new beginnings?

    SeasonalEasy
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  • How do you make Sunday special?

    SeasonalEasy
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  • How do you make rainy days special?

    SeasonalEasy
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  • How do you make winter nights cosy?

    SeasonalEasy
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  • How do you mark the end of summer?

    SeasonalEasy
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  • What autumn tradition or activity brings you the most joy?

    SeasonalEasy
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  • What makes a house party memorable?

    SeasonalEasy
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  • What makes a perfect autumn walk?

    SeasonalEasy
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  • What makes a perfect spring morning?

    SeasonalEasy
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  • What makes a reunion special?

    SeasonalEasy
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  • What seasonal change affects you most?

    SeasonalEasy
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  • What tradition from your childhood would you most like to share with others?

    SeasonalEasy
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  • What traditions do you hope will become popular again?

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  • What’s one thing about winter (or summer if you prefer) that people often overlook?

    SeasonalEasy
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  • What’s the most meaningful toast you’ve heard?

    SeasonalEasy
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  • What’s the most underrated holiday?

    SeasonalEasy
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  • What’s your approach to New Year’s resolutions?

    SeasonalEasy
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  • What’s your approach to costume parties?

    SeasonalEasy
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  • What’s your approach to housewarming parties?

    SeasonalEasy
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  • What’s your ideal retirement party?

    SeasonalEasy
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  • What’s your most memorable Christmas or winter celebration?

    SeasonalEasy
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  • How do you make holidays meaningful without spending money?

    SeasonalMedium
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  • How has your celebration of holidays changed over the years?

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  • If winter could teach you one lesson, what would it be?

    SeasonalMedium
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  • What’s the best fireworks display you’ve seen?

    SeasonalMedium
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  • What’s the best gift you’ve ever received?

    SeasonalMedium
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  • What’s the best graduation advice you can give?

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  • What’s the best picnic you’ve had?

    SeasonalMedium
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  • What’s the best surprise party you’ve experienced?

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  • What’s your favourite autumn tradition?

    SeasonalMedium
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  • What’s your favourite festival or fair?

    SeasonalMedium
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  • What’s your favourite holiday film and why?

    SeasonalMedium
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  • What’s your favourite seasonal food?

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  • What’s your favourite spring flower and why?

    SeasonalMedium
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  • What’s your favourite thing about spring cleaning?

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  • Describe your most awkward wave to someone who wasn’t waving at you.

    HumorousEasy
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  • Describe your most dramatic reaction to a minor inconvenience.

    HumorousEasy
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  • Describe your most epic cooking fail.

    HumorousEasy
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  • Describe your relationship with fitted sheets.

    HumorousEasy
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  • Describe your strangest family tradition that you thought was normal.

    HumorousEasy
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  • Describe your strangest hotel experience.

    HumorousEasy
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  • Describe your strangest method of decision-making.

    HumorousEasy
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  • Describe your strangest money-saving technique.

    HumorousEasy
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  • If everyday objects had customer reviews, what one-star review would a pillow deserve?

    HumorousEasy
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  • If you could add a 13th month to the year, what would happen during it?

    HumorousEasy
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  • If you could add a sound effect to any action, what would be funniest?

    HumorousEasy
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  • If you could make any activity require a licence, what would it be?

    HumorousEasy
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  • If you could make any rule that everyone had to follow for a day, what would it be?

    HumorousEasy
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  • If you could rename yourself, what would you choose?

    HumorousEasy
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  • If you had to choose between having a rewind button or a pause button for life, which would you pick?

    HumorousEasy
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  • If you had to live in a world made of one material, what would you choose?

    HumorousEasy
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  • If you had to wear a warning label, what would it say?

    HumorousEasy
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  • If you had to wear one outfit for the rest of your life, what would it be?

    HumorousEasy
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  • If your brain had a GPS voice, what would it sound like?

    HumorousEasy
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  • If your life had a blooper reel, what would be on it?

    HumorousEasy
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  • Tell us about a time you completely misunderstood what someone said with hilarious consequences.

    HumorousEasy
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  • What would be the worst superpower to accidentally gain?

    HumorousEasy
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  • What’s something you’re genuinely bad at, and how do you make peace with it?

    HumorousEasy
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  • What’s the most ridiculous rule you’ve encountered and would you ever break it?

    HumorousEasy
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  • What’s the most ridiculous thing you’d attempt if you knew you couldn’t fail?

    HumorousEasy
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  • What’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve convinced someone was true?

    HumorousEasy
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  • What’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve done because you were too polite to say no?

    HumorousEasy
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  • What’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve done to impress someone?

    HumorousEasy
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  • What’s the strangest compliment you’ve ever received?

    HumorousEasy
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  • What’s the strangest thing you believed as a child?

    HumorousEasy
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  • What’s the strangest thing you’ve used as a bookmark?

    HumorousEasy
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  • What’s the worst piece of advice you’ve ever received?

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  • What’s your most embarrassing attempt at DIY?

    HumorousEasy
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  • What’s your most embarrassing fashion phase?

    HumorousEasy
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  • What’s your most ridiculous excuse that actually worked?

    HumorousEasy
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  • What’s your strangest source of pride?

    HumorousEasy
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  • What’s your strangest talent that serves no purpose?

    HumorousEasy
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  • What’s your weirdest association with a particular smell?

    HumorousEasy
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  • What’s your weirdest food combination that you secretly love?

    HumorousEasy
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  • What’s your weirdest theory about everyday things?

    HumorousEasy
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  • Describe the most chaotic dinner party you could possibly host with five people from any time period.

    HumorousMedium
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  • What’s the worst possible first date location and how would you survive it?

    HumorousMedium
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  • Why do humans find laughter contagious, and what’s the funniest thing that’s made you laugh recently?

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  • Create a new category for the Nobel Prize.

    CreativeEasy
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  • Create a new constellation and its mythology.

    CreativeEasy
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  • Describe a seemingly ordinary object in your home as if it were an ancient artefact of great mystery.

    CreativeEasy
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  • Design a playground for adults.

    CreativeEasy
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  • Design a retirement home for fictional characters.

    CreativeEasy
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  • If animals could talk, which would have the most interesting stories to tell and why?

    CreativeEasy
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  • If you could live in any genre of story, would you choose comedy, drama, romance, or adventure?

    CreativeEasy
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  • Imagine books could only be one sentence long. What’s the greatest masterpiece you’d write?

    CreativeEasy
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  • Imagine you could write a musical about your life. What would the opening number be about?

    CreativeEasy
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  • Invent a new tradition for saying goodbye.

    CreativeEasy
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  • Tell us a creation myth for the internet.

    CreativeEasy
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  • Tell us the diary entries of a houseplant.

    CreativeEasy
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  • Tell us the memoir of a forgotten password.

    CreativeEasy
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  • Create a fictional museum exhibit that celebrates an ordinary, overlooked aspect of daily life.

    CreativeMedium
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  • Create a new emotion that humans haven’t discovered yet.

    CreativeMedium
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  • Create a new type of award ceremony for everyday achievements.

    CreativeMedium
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  • Create a new way to package and sell time.

    CreativeMedium
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  • Create a superhero based on the last thing you ate.

    CreativeMedium
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  • Describe making small talk as if it were an extreme sport.

    CreativeMedium
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  • Describe procrastination as if it were a person at a party.

    CreativeMedium
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  • Describe the strangest conversation you’ve overheard in public and what you imagined about it.

    CreativeMedium
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  • Describe writer’s block as if it were a place you could visit.

    CreativeMedium
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  • Describe your commute as if it were a heroic quest.

    CreativeMedium
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  • Describe your weekend as if it were a nature documentary.

    CreativeMedium
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  • Design a fictional creature from scratch and describe what it eats, where it lives, and what it fears most.

    CreativeMedium
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  • If buildings could talk, what would your current building tell you about yourself?

    CreativeMedium
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  • If days of the week were people, describe Monday’s personality.

    CreativeMedium
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  • If grammar rules were laws, which would you break first?

    CreativeMedium
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  • If personality traits were ingredients, what dish would you be?

    CreativeMedium
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  • If seasons were genres of film, what would autumn be?

    CreativeMedium
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  • If silence had a colour, what would it be and why?

    CreativeMedium
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  • If you had to teach someone a lesson using only objects found in a kitchen, what would you teach and how?

    CreativeMedium
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  • If your life were a film, what genre would it be and what would the climax be?

    CreativeMedium
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  • Invent a gadget that would solve a minor daily annoyance.

    CreativeMedium
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  • Invent a new profession that will exist in 100 years.

    CreativeMedium
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  • Invent a new room that every house should have.

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  • Invent a new sport that combines three existing sports and explain why people would want to play it.

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  • Invent a new word and explain what it means.

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  • Tell us a myth about why humans need coffee.

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  • Tell us a story that begins with “The last dragon in the world lived in my garage.”

    CreativeMedium
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  • Tell us about a support group for retired imaginary friends.

    CreativeMedium
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  • Tell us about the conspiracy theories believed by cats.

    CreativeMedium
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  • Tell us the breakup letter between you and your bad habits.

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  • Design a fictional city based entirely on an era from the past.

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  • Imagine you’re directing a film about an ordinary day in an ordinary person’s life. What would make it compelling cinema?

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  • If you could send one piece of advice back in time to yourself aged ten, what would it be?

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  • Are humans inherently good or evil?

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  • Are we products of nature or nurture?

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  • Can silence be more powerful than words?

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  • Can you be too open-minded?

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  • Can you change who you fundamentally are?

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  • Does a person deserve recognition for trying hard even if they ultimately fail?

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  • Is ambition a virtue or vice?

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  • Is boredom valuable?

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  • Is gratitude a choice?

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  • Is happiness a destination or a direction?

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  • Is ignorance ever truly bliss?

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  • Is it better to be needed or wanted?

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  • Is it wrong to pursue your own happiness if it means disappointing others?

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  • Is loyalty always admirable?

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  • Is nostalgia helpful or harmful?

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  • Is originality possible?

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  • Is perfection achievable or even desirable?

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  • Is respect earned or given?

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  • Is solitude different from loneliness?

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  • Is there honour in defeat?

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  • Is vulnerability strength or weakness?

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  • What makes a friendship last a lifetime whilst others fade away?

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  • What makes a promise binding?

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  • What makes a truly effective apology?

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  • What makes something art?

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  • What’s more important: intention or outcome?

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  • Do we have a moral obligation to help strangers, or does responsibility end with those we know?

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  • Does failure serve a greater purpose than success?

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  • Does forgiveness require forgetting?

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  • How do you distinguish between genuine confidence and arrogance in yourself and others?

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  • Is it ever ethical to lie to protect someone’s feelings?

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  • Is it more important to be true to yourself or to adapt to the expectations of others?

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  • Is it possible to be truly objective, or do our personal experiences always colour our judgement?

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  • Is it possible to truly know another person?

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  • Is there such a thing as too much honesty in relationships?

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  • Should we prepare for the worst or hope for the best?

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  • What does a truly meaningful life look like to you, and how does it differ from what society suggests?

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  • What does it mean to live authentically in a world where social media encourages us to curate our image?

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  • What would humanity be like without the concept of time?

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  • Can regret ever be a positive force in someone’s life, or is it purely destructive?

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  • Can wisdom be taught, or must it be earned through experience?

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  • Is it ever truly possible to separate the art from the artist?

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  • Is there inherent meaning in existence, or do we create it ourselves?

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  • What does it mean to be truly grateful?

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  • What does it mean to have integrity when no one is watching?

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  • How would you handle suddenly becoming famous overnight?

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  • How would you use the ability to teleport?

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  • If you could instantly become an expert in any skill, what would you choose and why?

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  • If you could live in any fictional world for a year, which would you choose and why?

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  • If you invented a new public holiday, what would it celebrate and how would people observe it?

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  • If you woke up tomorrow as a different species, how would you spend your first day?

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  • If you woke up tomorrow with a skill you’d always wanted, what would it be and how would you use it?

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  • How would you explain love to someone who’d never experienced it?

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  • How would you explain the internet to someone from the 1800s?

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  • How would you survive on a deserted island with only three items?

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  • If a famous person offered you terrible life advice, would you be more likely to take it than good advice from a stranger?

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  • If money were no object, what would you do differently with your life?

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  • If you could bottle any experience to relive later, what would it be?

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  • If you could bring one fictional character to life, who would it be?

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  • If you could experience any job for a day with no consequences, what would it be?

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  • If you could guarantee one thing for future generations, what would it be?

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  • If you could have dinner with any three people from history, who would you choose and why?

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  • If you could know the absolute truth to one question, what would you ask?

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  • If you could master any skill overnight, what would you choose and what would you do with it first?

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  • If you could prevent any invention from being created, what would it be?

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  • If you could redesign your local community from scratch, what three changes would you prioritise?

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  • If you could replace sleep with any other activity, what would you choose?

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  • If you could send one message to the entire world simultaneously, what would it say?

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  • If you had to choose between unlimited knowledge or unlimited power, which would you take?

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  • If you had to convince aliens not to destroy Earth, what would you say?

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  • If you had to create a new country, what would be its founding principles?

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  • If you had to design a test for wisdom, what would it include?

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  • If you had to live in a world without electricity, how would you adapt?

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  • If you had to live the rest of your life in a library, museum, or zoo, which would you choose?

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  • If you had to live the same year of your life on repeat forever, which year would you choose?

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  • If you had to live underwater or in space, which would you choose?

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  • If you had to teach a subject you know nothing about, how would you prepare?

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  • If you woke up tomorrow as your opposite personality type, what would be your first three actions?

    HypotheticalMedium
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  • What would you do if gravity stopped working for one hour?

    HypotheticalMedium
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  • What would you do if you could communicate with plants?

    HypotheticalMedium
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  • What would you do if you could duplicate yourself?

    HypotheticalMedium
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  • What would you do if you could see 10 seconds into the future?

    HypotheticalMedium
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  • What would you do if you discovered your best friend was a spy?

    HypotheticalMedium
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  • What would you do if you discovered your colleague was stealing from the company?

    HypotheticalMedium
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  • What would you do if you woke up 100 years in the future?

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  • What would you do if you woke up tomorrow and you were the only person on Earth?

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  • What would you do if you won the lottery but couldn’t tell anyone?

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  • If you woke up as a historical figure, whose life would you want to inhabit?

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  • What would be the unintended consequences of living in a world without mirrors?

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  • What would happen if everyone in the world suddenly had access to unlimited free education?

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  • Describe a leadership decision you’ve seen someone make that impressed you and why it mattered.

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  • How do you approach giving presentations?

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  • How do you build trust with a new team, and how do you know when that trust has been established?

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  • How do you deal with analysis paralysis?

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  • How do you deal with imposter syndrome?

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  • How do you deal with meeting overload?

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  • How do you handle a micromanaging boss?

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  • How do you prepare for a career change?

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  • How would you build a team from scratch?

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  • Is it more important for a leader to be liked or respected?

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  • What makes a good leader, and who is someone you consider a good leader?

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  • What’s more important: meeting deadlines or delivering quality?

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  • What’s the biggest mistake new managers make?

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  • What’s the most important factor in job satisfaction?

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  • What’s the most underrated professional skill?

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  • What’s the secret to successful collaboration?

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  • What’s your approach to dealing with office politics?

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  • What’s your philosophy on workplace friendships?

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  • How do you decide what’s worth your time and attention?

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  • How do you handle a team member who consistently delivers excellent results but makes others uncomfortable with their behaviour?

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  • How do you maintain enthusiasm after years in the same role?

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  • How should organisations navigate the tension between protecting employee privacy and fostering workplace community?

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  • How would you convince a skeptical team to embrace a major change?

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  • How would you lead a project where nobody believes it’s possible?

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  • How would you rebuild trust with a colleague after a significant mistake?

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  • If you had to negotiate peace between two groups who have fundamental disagreements, what approach would you take?

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  • What would you do if asked to relocate for work?

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  • What’s the difference between a manager and a leader?

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  • What’s the most important thing a leader should never do?

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  • How might the relationship between employers and remote workers evolve over the next decade?

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  • Create a framework for deciding which human enhancements should be allowed and which should be banned.

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  • Create a framework for deciding which traditions to preserve and which to abandon as society evolves.

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  • Create a framework for determining when efficiency should be sacrificed for resilience.

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  • Create a framework for determining which species to save when resources only allow protecting 10% of endangered species.

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  • Create a new model for relationships in a society where people live for 500 years.

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  • Create a solution for maintaining privacy that also allows for public health monitoring and crime prevention.

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  • Design a test to determine if an artificial intelligence is truly conscious or perfectly simulating consciousness.

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  • Design a way to communicate complex emotions to beings that don’t experience them.

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  • Design a way to measure and reward contribution to society that goes beyond economic productivity.

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  • Design a way to measure the value of art that satisfies both artists and economists.

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  • Design an education system that prepares students for jobs that don’t exist yet while preserving cultural heritage.

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  • Explain how a butterfly in Brazil could theoretically cause a tornado in Texas, and relate this to a personal decision you’ve made.

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  • Explain how language shapes thought, then design a language that promotes peace and cooperation.

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  • Explain how photography changed human memory, then predict how brain-computer interfaces will change consciousness.

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  • Explain why humans seek meaning, then design a philosophy for robots who don’t need meaning.

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  • Explain why we dream from biological, psychological, and philosophical perspectives, then propose your own theory.

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  • How does technology change the way we experience being human, and is that change for better or worse?

    AdvancedExpert
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  • How would you balance preservation of Earth with expansion into space?

    AdvancedExpert
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  • How would you design a justice system for crimes that haven’t been committed yet but are predicted by AI?

    AdvancedExpert
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  • How would you distribute power in a direct democracy where every citizen can vote on every issue instantly?

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  • How would you distribute resources fairly in a world where some people live for 200 years and others for 70?

    AdvancedExpert
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  • How would you govern a Mars colony of 10,000 people with a 20-minute communication delay to Earth?

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  • How would you maintain diversity of thought in a telepathic society?

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  • How would you maintain human agency in a world where algorithms predict behaviour better than individuals?

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  • How would you maintain human purpose and meaning in a post-scarcity society where AI does everything better?

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  • How would you maintain innovation in a society where failure has been eliminated?

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  • How would you preserve democracy in an age where deepfakes make truth indistinguishable from fiction?

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  • How would you prove that mathematics is discovered rather than invented, or argue the opposite?

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  • How would you prove to someone that you’re not living in a simulation, or argue that it doesn’t matter?

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  • How would you restructure society if you had to balance complete individual freedom with collective wellbeing?

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  • How would you restructure time if the standard 24-hour day no longer served humanity’s needs?

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  • If memories make us who we are, are you the same person after forgetting your childhood?

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  • If parallel universes exist where every possibility plays out, does moral choice have meaning?

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  • If time travel exists, why haven’t we met time travellers? Provide three theories and defend the most likely.

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  • If we could upload consciousness, would the uploaded version be you or a copy? Design an experiment to test this.

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  • If we discovered life is common in the universe but intelligence is rare, what would this mean for humanity’s purpose?

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  • If you could know the complete consequences of every action, would moral decision-making become easier or harder?

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  • If you could reset humanity with all current knowledge but no technology, what would you do differently?

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  • If you discovered free will is an illusion, how would you live differently, if at all?

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  • In what ways do social media algorithms reshape how we understand ourselves?

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  • Which film, book, or song deserves far more attention than it gets?

    OpinionEasy
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  • How has the definition of luxury changed?

    OpinionMedium
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  • How important is local shopping versus online convenience?

    OpinionMedium
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  • Is competition healthy for society?

    OpinionMedium
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  • Is influencer culture helpful or harmful?

    OpinionMedium
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  • Is privacy still possible in the digital age?

    OpinionMedium
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  • Is technology making us more or less creative?

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  • Is the gig economy empowering or exploitative?

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  • Is the pace of modern life too fast?

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  • Is tourism beneficial or harmful to local communities?

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  • Should artificial intelligence have a say in creative decisions like film or music production?

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  • Should governments invest more in space exploration or in solving problems on Earth?

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  • Should professional athletes’ salaries be capped?

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  • Should public figures’ past mistakes be forgiven?

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  • Should public transport be free?

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  • Should society prioritise economic growth or environmental sustainability, and how do we balance both?

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  • Should students be graded primarily on effort or on results?

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  • Should there be a maximum age for driving?

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  • Should there be age restrictions on social media?

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  • Should volunteering be mandatory for students?

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  • Should we have a four-day work week?

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  • Should we prioritise affordable housing or preserve green spaces in urban development?

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  • What gives you hope for the future?

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  • What single change would most improve society?

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  • What’s the most important quality in a neighbour?

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  • What’s the most significant technological change you’ve witnessed?

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  • What’s the most underrated aspect of modern life?

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  • What’s the most undervalued profession in society?

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  • Do countries have a moral obligation to accept climate refugees?

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  • How do we address the decline in critical thinking?

    OpinionHard
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  • How has the concept of community changed in modern times?

    OpinionHard
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  • How has the definition of success changed in recent years?

    OpinionHard
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  • How important is preserving cultural traditions in a globalised world?

    OpinionHard
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  • How should we balance free speech with preventing harm?

    OpinionHard
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  • Is true objectivity possible in journalism?

    OpinionHard
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  • Should artificial intelligence be allowed to make decisions about criminal sentencing?

    OpinionHard
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  • Should companies be required to offer remote work options permanently?

    OpinionHard
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  • Should companies prioritise profit or environmental responsibility when the two conflict?

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  • Should governments regulate the use of facial recognition technology, and to what extent?

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  • Should there be a right to disconnect from work?

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  • What’s the biggest misconception about your profession or industry?

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  • What’s the most important measure of a country’s success?

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  • What’s the most important skill schools should teach that they currently don’t?

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  • What’s the most pressing issue in your local community?

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  • In a world of increasing connectivity, are people becoming more or less lonely?

    OpinionExpert
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  • Is it ethical to prioritise artificial intelligence development if jobs will be lost?

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  • Book or film?

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  • Choose: Memories or dreams?

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  • Choose: Passion or stability?

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  • Choose: Wisdom or youth?

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  • Complete: “Everyone should…”

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  • Complete: “If I could, I would…”

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  • Convince me to visit your hometown in 10 seconds.

    Quick-FireEasy
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  • Early bird or night owl?

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  • Explain to a child: What growing up means.

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  • Explain to a child: Why we sleep.

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  • First thought: Music.

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  • Give three reasons to smile today.

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  • Give three uses for a paperclip.

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  • Give three ways to make someone’s day.

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  • In one word, describe yourself.

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  • Motivate me to exercise in 10 seconds.

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  • Mountains or beach?

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  • Name something that connects people.

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  • Name three things you’d negotiate if you were buying a house, a car, and a sandwich.

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  • Name three things you’ve thrown away that you actually miss.

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  • Quick: Name five cities you’d visit.

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  • Quick: Name five foods you couldn’t live without.

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  • React to: “Aliens have landed!”

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  • React to: “We’re moving abroad!”

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  • React to: “You’re the new boss!”

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  • Sell me this pen in 10 seconds.

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  • Teach me something in 10 seconds.

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  • What’s your most unpopular opinion about food?

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  • Which everyday object would be most hilarious if it suddenly became sentient?

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  • Would you rather be ordinary or different?

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  • Would you rather be right or kind?

    Quick-FireEasy
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  • Would you rather lead or follow?

    Quick-FireEasy
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  • Would you rather speak all languages or play all instruments?

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  • Yes or no: Can money buy happiness?

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  • Yes or no: Is it ever okay to lie?

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  • Defend: Pineapple on pizza.

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  • Defend: Queuing.

    Quick-FireMedium
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  • Defend: Rain.

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  • Name two things you’ve grown to appreciate only as you’ve got older.

    Quick-FireMedium
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  • Which modern invention would you be most prepared to give up, and why?

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  • You have ten seconds to convince someone to adopt your most controversial opinion. Go.

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  • Name three things, explain why they matter, and defend your choices.

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  • What would you want to be remembered for: achievement, kindness, or something else entirely?

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