Questions are prompts.
Invitations. Open to interpretation. If you’re an artist in the entertainment business, a lot of the time people don’t want an answer to the question. They’re hoping the question simply prompts something exciting.
A question prompts the boundaries you already have for a question like that.
For example…If the interview question is “Who produced this song?”…the question automatically narrows down all the possible things you could say next. But the trick is, as you mature, to not let the question narrow your answer down quite so much. To learn to expand the possibilities of your answers.
There so many interesting ways to answer that question than simply stating a name. But it’s hard work because when you’re in the moment it’s a lot easier to let the question completely dictate your answer. After all, you’re giving them the answer for the question.
But I think you can do better. It’s more fun for everyone if you do better.
Sure better questions lead to better answers. But you can’t always count on better questions.
You need to expand your repertoire of responses.
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