Question 1

Name one metric you track that has become a substitute for something you stopped tracking beneath it. What was the original thing? *(Listening for: the specific displacement. The metric that moved in front of a question the person stopped asking.)*

Question 2

If you were measuring presence rather than productivity this week, what evidence would you be looking for? *(Listening for: whether the person has a felt sense of presence, or whether presence is itself a concept they have abstracted away.)*

Question 3

What would the elders of wherever you came from measure in you, that your current scorecards do not? *(Listening for: cross-cultural and intergenerational dislocation in what counts. The question often surfaces grief or longing the person has not named.)*

Question 4

Where in your life is the gap between the metric that rises and the experience that falls? *(Listening for: specificity. Where the numbers look good and the body knows they lie.)*

Question 5

Is there a number in your life right now that is winning while something else is quietly losing? Name both. *(Listening for: the courage to name what the winning number is costing.)* ---