The Blessing of an Interview

Seen and Heard

When all has been said and done, the essence of the universe and the meaning of life comes down to a conversation between two friends.

In face, hasn’t it been recorded in the book of Genesis - “let us make man in our image.” Seems like a conversation to me.

It can be undeniably said that the most human thing to do is to converse with another, share information, express thought and emotion, debate and dialogue, laugh and cry. We are communicable beings transferring data and energy at a pace so rapid, the cosmos cannot record.

That is why I value the discipline of the interview. One person interviewing another through quests ions designed to comfortably warm up the other person in a way that they share without regard to fear, shame or the need to control with the end goal being the person is both seen and heard by another person.

This is called reflection. And if you think about it - before mirrors, how did we trust our appearance into the world - through another reflecting us. Since we don’t have mirrors for our soul, the eyes of another person is still the best technology we have in order to have our selves reflected back to us.

And then, see our self, or at least the part we didn’t see before.

Playing tabletop roleplaying games can also be another way of interviewing, because at least the way I play my games, we ask GREAT questions to prompt insight, character development, meditative awareness of the environment and much more.

But this week, instead of playing games, I spoke on the power of storytelling in conversation at the Personality Hacker Profiler Training event. The entire event focused on training how to conduct an interview to profile someone’s best fit personality type so they can optimize their life according to that type. It makes sense that if we our individual minds are wired according to a type, then we should know the crap out of that type in order to care for our minds. And since our minds are single nodes in a system of life, if we change something in our minds, such as caring for it, then it changes our entire system of life as we know it.

It’s transformative.

I love training through these events because through the art of the interview, I become a better man, father, husband, hospice nurse, and game master.

Check it out today - and see if you want to learn the skill of the personality profiling interview.