Hand-picked from 1,700 open cards
Deep Questions, Hand-Picked
Out of 1,700 cards in the open Jous set, these 28 go the deepest without turning the evening into therapy. Draw them one at a time; do not rush.
- What's the closest thing to magic for you?
The single best opener in the whole set. Nobody has a rehearsed answer.
- If you could ask one question from anyone in the world and they would answer as honest as they can, what would it be?
- What’s your most honest answer to the question: “What do you want?”
- What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
- Do you regret your words more or your silences?
A question that quietly sorts a whole table into two camps.
- What’s a story you tell yourself that you know might not be true?
Sit with the silence after this one.
- What part of your worldview are you most afraid to be wrong about?
- Do you have someone who would always tell you the truth?
- Who is one person who really saw you, while you did not expect them to?
- How often do you really see other the person, and let them in return really see you? (once a week, month, year, 10 years, life, never)
- Who can answer “how is it like to be you?” the best?
- What is the lie you tell yourself most often?
- How has your expectation of people to be without flaws changed, with age?
- What is a practice that brings meaning to your life, but it doesn’t include suffering first?
- When was the last time you *almost* gave up, but you were happy you did not?
- What was a context where someone else believed in you before yourself?
- What was the last time your definition of "good life" radically changed?
- When was the last era in your life where you could achieve unfiltered expression of joy or enthusiasm?
- What is an experience you have missed the most?
- Is there any guilt that you thought you would not be able to live with, but in fact you did?
- Which event divides your life best into two parts?
- Have you ever hidden a central thing in your life, but that to hide it you had to tell many more lies about other things and skip having many further conversations?
- What makes being you really hard?
- Where in your life do you feel necessary and where do feel completely unnecessary?
- What legacy do you hope to leave behind?
- What is something you think about every day but rarely say out loud?
- What do you wish was not true about you?
- What was a void you could recently not fill with material things?
Why these 28?
Every card here was picked by hand out of the full open-source Jous set. The rest of the pile is a random draw away — some cards there are dumb, some are deep. That is the point.
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