<ul><li>What can I do to switch off and relax from time to time?</li><li>How can I eat healthy food that is delicious?</li><li>How do I create a body that I am proud of and that serves me well?</li><li>How can I balance my personal life with my professional life while still feeling productive and fulfilled?</li><li>How can I achieve regular deep sleep?</li><li>How can I leverage social media in healthy and productive ways that add value to my personal and professional life?</li><li>What are the optimum behaviors, habits and tools to mitigate my cognitive challenges (ADD)?</li></ul>

Self Care

Most of us don't hoard knowledge for knowledge sake. We usually do it as a path to improving our condition. Tiago Forte asked his note-taking students on some of the questions they are trying to address when hunting for information.

Knowing to DO

<ul><li>How can I become a more natural & effective collaborator?</li><li>How can I make problem-solving fun and attractive?</li><li>How can I generate income pursuing my interests?</li><li>What are the key skills to prepare for the future?</li><li>What forms of marketing are ethical, profitable for the marketer, and useful for the audience?</li><li>How do I build a career I don’t want to retire from?</li><li>How do I create residual streams of income that can buffer my productivity highs and lows?</li><li>What is the best platform for me as a creator?</li><li>What should my personal brand be, and how do I get it there?</li></ul>

Business & Career 

<ul><li>What should I invest my money into so it can work harder for me?</li><li>How do I catch up building a nest egg midlife?</li><li>How can we balance investing strategically with spending money on what we love today?</li></ul>

Finances

<ul><li>How can I build a good reading habit?</li><li>What can yoga teach me and move me towards?</li><li>How do I improve the functionality of my brain including cognitive processing and memory?</li><li>How can I improve every day by 1%?</li><li>How can I structure my goals so I increase my chances of achieving them?</li><li>What are the classics? What are they trying to teach us? And how is it relevant?</li><li>How can I consistently achieve the goals I set for myself?</li><li>What facets of my life can I automate?</li><li>How can I become friends with people that I want to be like?</li><li>What does systems thinking have to teach us about healing and personal growth?</li></ul>

Self Improvement

<ul><li>How can I improve my leadership skills and consistently support, empower, and challenge those around me?</li><li>What processes and people should I put in place in order to replace myself in the current business so I can focus on the next phase of the business before IPO?</li><li>How do we create messages that are unique and persuasive to rural voters in Maine?</li></ul>

Leadership

<ul><li>How am I my own biggest stumbling block?</li><li>How do I overcome my personal bottlenecks to be authentic, vulnerable, and risk failure?</li><li>How do you find your way after losing your faith?</li><li>What does living in integrity with myself look like?</li><li>What does showing gratitude for my life, look like?</li><li>What can I do to accept myself as I am?</li><li>What in my past casts a shadow on my present?</li><li>What are the most simple and universally effective practices to experience and sustain inner peace?</li><li>What am I missing?</li><li>What does addiction and recovery have to teach us?</li></ul>

Self Refelection

<ul><li>How can I not lose track of my core values and live up to them?</li><li>How can I foster greater understanding, equality, and unity without disenfranchising any in the landscape of gender diversity?</li><li>How do I live a fulfilled life with no regrets in all aspects of my life?</li><li>How can I deepen my self-awareness and sharpen the values that are most personal to me, so that they permeate all areas of my life?</li><li>What can I do to get clearer on my purpose?</li><li>How can people utilize technology in a way that corresponds to their values?</li></ul>

Values

<ul><li>How do I express myself clearly and more often to my wife to show her that I love her to the moon and beyond?</li><li>How can we cultivate a romantic relationship of respect, understanding, support, care, affection, and passion as a couple, which will serve as an example to our children so that they grow up to become adults responsible for the reality they live in, respecting themselves and others?</li><li>How can I curiously explore life together with my life partner?</li></ul>

Love, Spouse or Partner

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Tiago Forte shares his running list of the most interesting, resonant, and provocative open questions his students have shared over the years.

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