Question 1

What is the name you call yourself when you are alone and the performance stops? Not your professional name, not the name on the biography. The name underneath the name. *(This is listening for whether the reader has an inner life that is distinct from the public identity.)*

Question 2

What did you do between the ages of eight and twelve that you no longer do? *(This is listening for the suppressed self through the vehicle of childhood play and creativity.)*

Question 3

Is there a version of you that your oldest friends knew that you have largely retired? *(This is listening for the gap between the original person and the constructed professional.)*

Question 4

When you avoid being alone and quiet, what are you avoiding? *(This is listening for what lives in the silence.)*

Question 5

What would the ekerentane, the unwanted child, the original self before the credentials, want you to know? *(This is a direct invitation; the listening depends on the reader's willingness to go there.)*