what are you seeking? Stay tuned. There's a
concept in NLP called a core question
this was created by Connirae and Steve
Andreas and what it's about is looking
into certain contexts in your life and
finding the question that you're asking
yourself this is primarily unconscious
or for the most part it's usually
unconscious and the importance of this
is the more you can make your core
questions conscious the more likely you
can find answers and fulfilling answers
and really find what you're seeking best
way for me to explain what a question is
there to give you an example of one is
one that one of my film professors when
I was in film school explained and he
didn't know it won't be any didn't know
what core questions were but he had
stumbled upon a theory that exposes this
idea of a core question so it didn't
just come from NLP people necessarily i
believe that this is something that
exists within us the way he explained
filmmakers really great filmmakers
auteur film makers as I might call them
is that any great filmmaker if you look
at all of their films you can see them
asking a question you can see them
struggling with a question that pervades
all of their films there's a theme that
runs through all of their work of the
question that they're asking themselves
and usually it's about life it's a hard
one of the directors he used as an
example is one of my favorite director
Stanley Kubrick. Stanley Kubrick made
movies like The Shining a clockwork
orange 2001 a Space Odyssey Kubrick was
a very intense filmmaker who spent years
on his movies and he they're all
masterpieces my professor said that what
he noticed in Kubrick's films is that
every one of his films he is struggling
with the idea are struggling with what
is more powerful in man is man's
destructive side more power
full or is his loving side more powerful
and that was the question he was
constantly trying to answer in every one
of his films i thought this is
fascinating
I wasn't sure that I quite agreed with
it when i first heard it I went and
rented all of stanley kubrick's movies
and watched all of them and as I watch
them i understood what my professor had
seen because it was true
now there were other themes in these
movies but clearly in every single one
of them there is a theme of a person
main character usually destruct
struggling with this idea of what's more
powerful love or destruction are worried
where they coming from where they
destroyed themselves are they moving
towards love and connecting with other
people sometimes these movies were not
just about one character that that theme
was more about society clockwork orange
is a good example of that my professor
went on to say that he was delighted
that Kubrick's last film eyes wide shut
with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman there
is an answer there
Kubrick comes up with an answer and
refreshingly the answer is in the very
last line of the movie by nicole kidman
i won't give it away and it's obvious
that Kubrick has made a decision here
that the loving side of man is more
powerful than the destructive side of man
and it's a beautiful ending to an
illustrious career
a true artist core question works like
this take a specific area of specific
context of your life it could be
professional and could be personal and
look at that situation and ask yourself
what is the question you might be asking
yourself before you even do that how do
you represent this context so say if its
work if I'm representing my or my
professional context what do I see you I
see an image or do i hear something or
both do i hear, do i see myself
doing these videos and do i hear my
voice or devices myself teaching in
front of people and then also hear my
voice or do I see the people who aren't
teaching or do I see the person who on
coaching and you want to take notice and
you also want to take notice of
modalities and then write down a few pop
simple questions you're not going to
nail this probably the first time you're
not going to nail the core question
right away sometimes most of the time it
takes looking into a little bit takes
digging into this and going really deep
down and finding that core question when
you find the core question that you'll
usually know it by thinking of the
representation you know if it's visual
auditory or both and asking the question
and if the representation does not
change you probably found the core
question if the representation does
change it probably means you're asking a
different question that's not quite a
core question when you discover your
core question you might also discover
that your you can better able find
answers to that question and if that
question changes then it means you're
evolving and it might not actually be a
core question because core questions
tend to be those questions that don't
change its kind of like a theory or
thesis it's something that's open ended
and can constantly be delved into deeper
and understood deeper if you find that
you find answers to the question and it
changes that's good you're probably
gonna move deeper into the core question
answers you receive don't change you
probably had a core question that you've
been asking yourself and the beauty
about this is now you're touching upon
what could be your calling your purpose
your life's work something that you're
always going to be asking is something
that you're always going to be answering
just finding an answer doesn't shut down
a question and if it doesn't it's not a
question because as long as you're alive
life is living there's nothing there's
no conclusion to it until it's actually
done thinking about what is the question
you'll be asking yourself for the rest
of your life and you will answer for the
rest of your life that is the journey
and as you heard probably many times
it's not a destination it is indeed a
journey
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