Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
If You Want to Have Life-Changing Conversations, Ask These Tough Questions | E74 | Topaz Adizes
28 Jan 2025
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Your mind is a faithful dog. It will chase any stick you throw.
Topaz Adizes. Today, we're talking to an Emmy Award-winning writer, director, Edmund Hillary Fellow. And you are right now on a mission to create powerful human interactions in the digital age.
I don't know even if I like humans. We do some terrible things. But I love humanity. And what is humanity? Humanity is not what's in us. It's what's between us. If you see yourself in a negative mode, beating yourself up, you're asking a disempowering question. Should I fire this person? Should we launch the product or not? Should I leave my job and start a startup?
Okay, wait, change the question. Create a better, more specific, constructive question. And then the answer becomes obvious.
How do you create the questions that actually start creating results?
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Topaz Adidas. Today, we're talking to an Emmy Award-winning writer, director, Edmund Hillary Fellow. I mean, your work, Topaz, was selected for super prestigious festivals like Cannes and Sundance and so many more. And you are right now on a mission to create powerful human interactions in the digital age. How did this become a calling? How did you get started, Topaz?
I got started in my parents' divorce as a four-year-old. I got started feeling disconnected from the two people I love the most and who did not seem to find a way to connect. That's where this pain became hunger. And then in my 20s, I studied philosophy and was trying to find how I can contribute.
And I was really interested in cinema and the camera and talking to people to ask questions, to have conversations. to feel a sense of connection to other people. And I would think, yeah, it's because when you're a kid and your parents get divorced and your world falls apart and you're looking for that sense of connection. That was my experience for me.
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