Hear    an  interview   with    matt

may at  the Great   Work

Podcast.

Question

Masterclass

Part 1

Ask One Question at a Time

Question Masterclass lessons appear throughout the book.

Keep an eye out for them, and apply them to ensure that you

use the Seven Essential Questions to their full effect.

My friend Matt May, author of In Pursuit of Elegance and The Laws
of Subtraction, tells the story of the time he first drove through the
centre of Paris. Swept into the traffic circle around the landmark
Arc de Triomphe, he noticed, quickly, that this was not your
typical rotary.
With twelve streets feeding into the
roundabout, the normal rules were
reversed. Here, the incoming traffic had
right of way, while the traffic already in
the circle had to wait its turn. Even though
the system works—those crazy French!—
Matt’s experience was one of white-knuckled panic as cars seemed
to come at him from all sides.
Sometimes being on the receiving end of someone with a