How do we achieve greater intimacy in all relationships? By asking the right questions. Topaz Adizes shares 12 questions on the podcast.
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Topaz Adizes is an Emmy Award-winning writer, director and experienced design architect. He is the founder and executive director of the experience design studio The Skin Deep. He is also its author 12 Questions About Love: A Guide to Intimate Conversations and Deeper Relationshipswhere he reveals how he can deepen any relationship through the 12 carefully crafted questions presented in his documentary series {THE AND}.
In this episode of Last First Date Radio:
● Where did the original idea for the book come from?
● Why asking the right kinds of questions creates greater intimacy
● Dating tips that will change the way you date
EP 597: Topaz Adizes – How to Achieve Greater Intimacy (By Asking the Right Questions)
Where did the original idea for the book come from?
Over the past ten years, we’ve held space for 1,200 conversations around the world. We were asked to distill what we learned from these conversations. What worked and why? How do people open up so vulnerable?
What do you hope readers will take away from the book?
I hope people deepen their relationships – all relationships – by asking and answering these questions.
The book is 12 questions about love. Why 12?
We just started with 12 questions for each participant in the documentary series {THE AND} and it worked.
What are the 12 questions and how do they help create greater intimacy?
There are five things that raise powerful questions in a relationship:
- Don’t make it binary, yes or no
- Ask a question that acknowledges the relationship
- Ask questions that are constructive
- You have a question without an agenda
- Ask questions to connect different ideas
QUESTION 1: What are your three favorite memories we share and why do you love them?
QUESTION 2: What was your first impression of me and how has it changed over time?
QUESTION 3: When do you feel closest to me and why?
QUESTION 4: What are you hesitant to ask me and why?
QUESTION 5: What is the biggest challenge in our relationship right now and what do you think it teaches us?
QUESTION 6: What sacrifice do you think you have made that I haven’t recognized and why do you think it is?
QUESTION 7: What is the pain within me that you wish to heal and why?
QUESTION 8: What is one experience you wish we never had and why?
QUESTION 9: What do you think you are learning from me?
QUESTION 10: What is one experience you look forward to sharing and why?
QUESTION 11: If this was our last conversation, what would you never want me to forget?
QUESTION 12: Why do you love me?
What advice do you have for anyone looking to go on their last first date?
When that moment of clarity opens up for you and you write down your values (must list) from a place that knows, don’t take it for granted. Write: What I see, what I don’t see and how I feel. This will help you recognize your partner when you meet them.
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