Question 1

Name the original reason you entered your field or began your primary work. Before the credentials. Before the recognition. What was the thing you were moving toward? *(Listening for: the founding impulse. Most people can name it. The question is whether it is still present in the daily doing.)*

Question 2

When did you last lose track of time in your work because the work was genuinely absorbing, not because the deadline was close? *(Listening for: flow, and its recency. If the last time was years ago, there is a rupture worth examining.)*

Question 3

What part of your craft do you protect most fiercely from being turned into a performance? Why that part? *(Listening for: where the authentic relationship with the work still lives. That protected place is the seed of restoration.)*

Question 4

If the awards and recognition disappeared tomorrow, which part of the work would you still choose? Name it. *(Listening for: the intrinsic residue. The part that was always for its own sake, before the measuring began.)* ---