The Art of a Great Question with Cal Fussman [From the Archive]

Cal Fussman shares how a decade of unplanned travel, asking strangers for a place to sleep, became his training for interviewing everyone from Muhammad Ali to Mikhail Gorbachev. He explains why great questions matter more than ever when Google provides instant answers, and why he eventually stopped bringing prepared questions into interviews. The conversation explores how curiosity gets suppressed in adulthood but can be deliberately rebuilt, and demonstrates how changing a single question can transform hiring, parenting, and even the direction of a life.