Change Your Questions, Change Your Life…in Retirement – Marilee Adams, PhD
About this episode
Dr. Marilee Adams discusses the impact of self-questioning on retirement and personal growth.
Most of us think of questions as something we ask other people. Dr. Marilee Adams has spent years showing the opposite: the most consequential questions we ask are the ones we ask ourselves. Adams, founder of the Inquiry Institute and author of the half-million-copy bestseller Change Your Questions, Change Your Life, (a new 5th edition has just been published) joins us to make us smarter about our internal questioning. She introduces us to two mindsets that live inside all of us — Judger and Learner — and the Choice Map™ that helps you notice which one is driving the bus. The conversation takes her work directly into the world of retirement, where Judger questions ( What do I regret?, What do I resent?) can quietly shape our moods, relationships, and the texture of later life. But Learner questions ( What would be meaningful next?, What does my heart want me to do?, What can I contribute? ) open up possibilities for a different future. Along the way, Adams explains the physiology underpinning the two mindsets, and a single powerful question: Who do I choose to be in this moment? that she returns to again and again. She also introduces us to the five-to-seven-second “Stop…
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