11/06/2026
The easiest question in the room is the one that catches you.
Not the one about your experience. Not the one about how you handle pressure. You could answer those in your sleep.
The one about you.
What do you do for fun? What would we find you doing on a Saturday? What do you actually enjoy?
I watched it happen to myself recently. Interview going brilliantly, every answer landing, and then that question. And my mind went completely blank. I managed something about walking the dog and loving reading. Then drove home and realised I had not finished a book in months.
It is not because there is nothing you enjoy. It is because nobody has asked in years.
Including you.
That is the part I want you to sit with. We wait to be asked. And while we wait, we keep answering everyone else’s needs so fluently that our own answers quietly expire.
So I am asking. What do you do, just for you, that has nothing to do with anyone else?
And if your mind just went blank, do not scroll past that. That blank is information