Ravi,
I was quite pleased to see you accepted the peace offering in my "cognitive dissonance" post. Thank you for your thoughtful response. I feel, our relationship is deepening with each exchange. I have to admit, my desire to bury the spitballs was a little self-serving, as I'm hoping you will consider doing me a very big favor. As you know, I've been working diligently on launching a new pod-cast with the working title "Zombie in My Gas Tank". The mission of "Zombie" will be to explore, go where no one has gone before, any and all questions concerning Emotional Intelligence (EI). I'm hoping for a thoughtful investigation into something, I feel is almost as important as enlightenment. And because, I'm such a huge believer in all things related to TM. I believe, I've come up with a concept that could be described as "doing less and accomplishing more". Instead of using Skype or expensive recording equipment- not to mention that "deer in the headlights look"- some guests get when asked a question they didn't expect, I've decided to post a series of EI questions, that the guest can take as long as they like to answer and then post so everyone can join in with something constructive. I've pondered long and hard about what the questions could be asked of my guests, and it became obvious to me that the "Proust Questionnaire" was made for this purpose. For anyone unfamiliar with the Proust Questionnaire it is series of personality (EI) questions made famous by Marcel Proust and more recently by VANITY FAIR (as I'm sure many know the last page of every issue includes a celebrity answering the questions). You can get more at the following links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proust_Questionnaire http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/06/proust-albert-brooks-201106 http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/05/proust-tina-fey-201105 http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/12/proust-harrison-ford-201012 http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/10/proust-rafael-nadal-201010 http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/10/proust_simon200710 There are 50+ questions in the first two questionnaires that Proust originally completed. I plan to submit around 20 of those questions to each Zombie guest. So Ravi, would you consider being my first quest? I would be honored.
