Michael Bungay Stanier
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505 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5 Jun
Michael Bungay Stanier’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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there's more to it than just a good question.
But in the end, the book says, look, let me give you seven good questions.
Let me give you some tips on how to ask a question well.
And that's going to carry you a long way down the path.
Rightfully so.
That was like the third draft where they're like, go away and write another version of this book.
And I'm like, okay, what if it was – I like the number 108.
And yeah, it was a shocker.
That was a terrible book.
That was one of the rejected versions of it as well.
So I spent years really –
playing with the questions and trying to figure out the order and figure out which of the seven, you know, should it be five?
Should it be nine?
Should it be some other number?
Which of them, in what order do I teach them?
There was a lot of playing around with a lot of scraps of paper where I kept writing things down and moving them around.
Yeah, starting with a what if I asked a question rather than offered up an opinion, an advice, a suggestion, a solution, you've already won.
That's already a fantastic start, particularly if it's a genuine question, not a fake question, because sometimes people have gone, oh, questions are good, but let me offer up this piece of advice disguised as a question.
So they go, hey, have you thought about, which isn't a question at all, it's just advice with a question mark attached to the end.
But the first thing to know is, look, if you can just ask any good question or it's any question, that's probably helpful a lot of the time.
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