7 Life-Changing Questions You Must Answer - Voice With Ankur Warikoo In this episode of Voice With Warikoo, Ankur Warikoo presents seven challenging questions designed to provoke deep reflection and catalyze change. These questions cover aspects of daily habits, fear, unspoken words, life's true priorities, time with loved ones, the fear of loss, and identity beyond social constructs. Tune in every Thursday on your favorite podcast platform for more insightful episodes.
00:00 Introduction to Woice With Warikoo
00:37 Life-Changing Questions: The Two Week Test
01:21 Fear vs Desire: Confronting Your Deepest Fears
01:56 Unspoken Words: Speak Your Truth Today
02:32 Life's True Priority: What Matters Most?
03:16 The Parent Paradox: Cherishing Time with Loved Ones
04:04 Paralysis of Potential Loss: Overcoming Fear of Losing
04:34 Identity Stripped: Discovering Your True Self
05:26 Confronting Uncomfortable Truths
06:01 Conclusion and Call to Action
[00:00:03] Hey everyone, this is Voice with Warikoo, with my name is Ankur Warikoo.
[00:00:07] In this English podcast series, I cover a lot of things.
[00:00:11] Career, relationships, personal finance, success, failure and frankly anything else that comes to mind.
[00:00:19] Every week, Thursday, on your favorite podcast platform, a new episode, Voice with Warikoo.
[00:00:29] Here are 7, in my opinion, super difficult questions but they can change your life.
[00:00:36] Number one, I call it the two-week test.
[00:00:40] So look at the last two weeks and if you lived the rest of your life,
[00:00:47] the exact same way as you lived the last two weeks, would your life become better or worse?
[00:01:08] Because then that will tell you that your daily habits are the building blocks of our future selves.
[00:01:16] The habits of our daily lives are the same.
[00:01:21] Number two, fear versus fear.
[00:01:24] Desire, fear and desire. Is it something that you're afraid of doing because of the world but you really want to do it?
[00:01:34] Something that you really want to do but you're afraid of because you're afraid of the world.
[00:01:40] Our deepest desires often hide behind our biggest fears.
[00:01:55] Number three, unspoken words.
[00:02:02] If you die tomorrow, there's someone you want to say something but you haven't been able to say it yet.
[00:02:10] And what do you want to say?
[00:02:13] If you die tomorrow, is it a question of your life or your life?
[00:02:15] Is it a person whom you wanted to tell something but you could never tell them?
[00:02:18] And what is it that you would want to tell them?
[00:02:22] Tomorrow isn't guaranteed. Speak your truth today.
[00:02:27] Nobody will see it tomorrow.
[00:02:29] Tell the truth today.
[00:02:32] Number four, life's true priority.
[00:02:37] The most important thing in life.
[00:02:40] In the remaining time that you've left on earth, what is the most important thing for you?
[00:02:46] And do you work towards it every day?
[00:02:52] What is the most important thing in life for you that you're working everyday for?
[00:03:03] Our actions, not our intentions define our priorities.
[00:03:08] The actions we do, not what we think, are the ones that make our lives.
[00:03:16] Number five, the parent paradox.
[00:03:19] Our parents.
[00:03:21] How many times did you meet your parents in the last month?
[00:03:25] And the time that they have left, how many more times will you be able to meet them?
[00:03:30] And will that be enough for you?
[00:03:46] Time with a loved one is a finite resource.
[00:03:50] Spend it wisely.
[00:03:53] The time that we get with our closest relatives will end one day.
[00:03:59] So whenever we get it, we'll be able to spend it.
[00:04:03] Number six, the paralysis of potential loss.
[00:04:08] Is there anything that you don't want to do because you're afraid of losing?
[00:04:13] There are things that you don't want to do because you're afraid of losing.
[00:04:18] Sometimes the fear of losing prevents us from ever winning.
[00:04:24] Sometimes we can't win out of fear of losing.
[00:04:29] And last question, the final question.
[00:04:35] Identity stripped bare.
[00:04:38] Your entire existence in front of you.
[00:04:42] Without your name, your designation, your status, tell me who you are and do you like this answer?
[00:04:50] Without your name, without your designation, without your identity,
[00:04:53] tell me who you really are and do you like this answer?
[00:05:01] Because our truest self exists beyond our social constructs.
[00:05:07] The reality that we are, the society that thinks about us, we are beyond that.
[00:05:14] These questions will force you to find an uncomfortable, such,
[00:05:20] such search for your life, your relationships, your own existence.
[00:05:26] These questions will force you, as they forced me to confront uncomfortable truths about our life,
[00:05:33] about our relationships, about our own identity.
[00:05:36] They aren't just thought experiments.
[00:05:38] They are catalysts for change.
[00:05:41] This is just a story or a question.
[00:05:43] This can really change our lives.
[00:05:47] Which was the toughest question for you?
[00:05:48] Which was the hardest question for you?
[00:05:54] All the best.