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Questions to ask · Life lessons · for your Dad

What is worth fighting for, and what is worth letting go?

Why this question matters

Advice lands differently in someone's own words and handwriting. Asking for it is also a quiet way of saying their experience matters to you.

Ask it on a quiet afternoon, give time for the answer, and write down the small details. That is where the story lives.

  1. What does it mean to be a good man?
  2. What are you most grateful for?
  3. What is the best advice you've ever been given?
  4. What do you know now that you wish you'd known at twenty?
  5. What have you changed your mind about as you've got older?

From the journal

Keep Dad’s answers in one book.

This is one of the 100 guided questions in Tell Me Your Story, Dad. Every page has room to write the answer by hand.

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