I’m not sure which kind of social situation would have me feeling comfortable asking this one, let alone most of the others.
If you were an ice cream flavor, which would you be and why?
Most of them feel like the kinds of questions asked when I go to team meetings to see people I work with remotely. It always feels weird and contrived in the moment, but having slightly weird conversations with people really does leave me feeling friendlier or closer with them.
In fact, I could see us laughing at some of the sillier questions at the after meeting cocktails. Now, that’s some quality team building.
It’s more the very idea of asking total strangers any of these questions for the purpose of furthering my career. Not in order to be friends, or even potential dating partners - in those contexts, the questions makes sense.
Let’s be honest, it would end up being a vanilla. Maybe the “Vanilla Bean” or “Homestyle”. On a really good day, I might aspire to cookie dough bits in the vanilla.
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These are actually terrible questions. I used to open my class with ice breaker questions and anything where you ask “what’s the best” or “your favorite” would just freeze people up. I would change it up to just like “name an ice cream flavor you like,” and people would respond so much more readily. Picking the best is very stressful.
Thank you! Exactly this. My kids give me such a hard time about that, but “what’s the best/what’s your favorite” makes me freeze every time. And then they get mad when I try to turn it to “well, I like X, Y, and Z for the following reasons…”
I was recently asked at a team meeting what my core or strongest (the terms had both been used during the discussion) values were, from a list of nearly 100 words. We were supposed to choose the first two we noticed on the handout, and then talk about them.
I said pretty much all of them, and that I really couldn’t pick. Honestly, they weren’t words you could easily put into a hierarchy, and I didn’t like the assumption that because you picked two you didn’t value the other values.
