What kind of people do you admire?
Are there people who’ve had a big influence on who you are today?
What do your best friends value most about you, and what do you value in them?
What do you hope to contribute to the world through your work?
Has studying major X changed how you see the world?
Do you think what you study spills into how you live your daily life?
What would surprise your younger self most about where you are now?
What’s the most unexpected thing you learned in major X?
What kind of people thrive in major X, and what kind of people struggle?
If you could wave a magic wand and reform your field overnight, what’s the first thing you’d change?
What do you think people outside your field misunderstand the most?
Is there a chance that intellectually, we've become so complacent that our sense of what's possible has dwindled and we're stuck in this cycle?
How do we get people out of going down conformist career paths?
Where did you make your best memories, even if the stay was short? What made them so good?
You were born in Y, fluent in language X, how do you think that influenced your world view, how your different ideas fit together,
What do you hope you will spend the next year thinking about, ideas and questions you haven't thought about already?
What do you think it is that you grasp that others outside of your field don't
Of all the areas of human life, where can data bring the biggest improvement?
What is your unrealized dream in life?
Why is it that things that didn't happen have so much power for you relative to things that did happen?
What do you wanna do more of?
What books made you feel really good after finishing them?
What emotion do you understand better than all the others?
What's a belief you hold that others would find absurd?
is Time a positive or negative thing in your life?
What do you admire about your teenage life?
When it comes to death, would you say death is underrated, or Life is overrated?
What have you learned to appreciate about your hometown over time?
Where is your energy focused right now?
What feels unreachable to you?
What's your best defense against despair?
How well do you feel your closest friends and family know you?