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What outstanding mystery is there about your life?
Why do I sometimes wake up feeling groggy even though I went through my bedtime routine perfectly 🤔
What does your ideal day look like?
Wake up, grab a brush, put a little makeup, hide my scars to fade away the shakeup, intentionally leave my keys upon the table, and then do some light fiction writing.
What in your life feels good but you know is bad for you?
EATING SUGAR. Jeez once I slip and have some full-sugar chocolate I just get that craving and can't stop hunting down more sugary foods.
What would you like people to say about you at your funeral?
"He sure did publish a lot of podcasts."
What would 80-year old you say?
"None of that mattered, but I'm glad we had fun."
What would 10-year-old you say?
"Huh—we don't become an actor or director? Oh, we kinda do? Neat."
What high-magnitude, non-consensus rightness have you discovered?
Wear an eye mask, ear plugs, and an EEG sleep tracker every night.
If you were a dictionary word, what would the definition be?
I'd love it if "to Christian Genco" something meant to hyper-optimize it after exhaustively learning as much as you can about it. Ex: "I Christian Genco'd buying a car...
How would you like to grow?
I'd like to grow: my height (a tad), my basketball skills, my number of females (from zero to one, so I could converse with her), and my number of baseball-carrying bu...
What do you feel vulnerable about?
If your answer is "NOTHING I HAVE NO WEAKNESSES I AM VERY STRONG," I'd wager you're living in an unhealthy situation where it's not safe to express your vulnerabilitie...
What was your energy level like today?
I haven't actually watched any of The Smartest Guys in the Room yet, but I hear it's good?
If you could switch places with someone 100 years ago, or 100 years in the future, which would you pick and why?
I'm consistently amused by people forgetting that, depending on your race and geographic location, traveling back in time would be worse in literally every way.
How have you changed in the last year?
OH JEEZ how have I not changed. I feel like 2020 Christian is living an almost entirely different life from 2019 Christian.
What's the most recent adventurous thing you've done?
Learning to SCUBA dive and going zip lining feels like the most stereotypically adventurous thing I've done, but it was actually pretty chill. I think starting therapy...
If you could be famous for anything you wanted, what would it be?
I'd want to be famous for bringing good luck to people who gave me money. Maybe I want to be a fountain 🤔
What's your favorite conversation to start when you're home with family?
For bonus points, start a conversation involving all four at the same time.
What surprised you today?
I thought the dishes in the dishwasher were clean, but the dishwasher was actually paused last night so they were still soapy. I was surprised by this information afte...
How would your life be different if you could read minds?
I feel like I would either feel more anxious because the thoughts I thought other people were thinking would be confirmed as their thoughts, or less anxious because I'...
What adventure would you start if you had 4 hours of intense focus and abundant resources?
On today's episode of Your Thoughts, you think about the answer to the question: What adventure would you start if you had 4 hours of intense focus and abundant resour...
What are the minority of your actions that drive the majority of your results?
This podcast takes like an hour per week to produce, so it's definitely up there.
What is your favorite toy?
My new Canon M50 is ludicrously fun.What is an f-value and how does it work? Like, physically? Also the lenses are so fun to fiddle with.
What will you finish today?
Three guesses as to what yesterday's... wait, no.
What will you start today?
Three guesses as to what tomorrow's prompt will be.
What just occurred to you?
You ever say a word so many times it stops making sense as a word?
What's going well?
Kinda like everything right now, actually.
What did you need more of yesterday?
SLEEP. That nap was amazing.
What do you need to accept?
One day, I'm going to die.
Did you notice?
I rewatched that video recently KNOWING WHAT WOULD HAPPEN and it still got me.
What do you want?
"WHAT DO WE WANT?" "MORE EPISODES!" "WHEN DO WE WANT THEM?" "ONCE PER DAY AT 5AM CST!"