![]() ![]() Substance and quality over articulateness.Work out who this person views as important to impress – what their value and status hierarchy is.Get into conversational mode so they are more likely to be honest and themselves.List every possible way in which you can use a _? (towel coffee mug ballpoint pen) – this is a common test for creativity.īehind the scenes during the interview you want to:.What do you do as routine practice in the same way a musician practices their scales?.What questions do you have about that project? “During the middle of this discussion, we chatted about. Ask a question about a think you talked about during the interview to assess engagement with the conversation and something they could not have prepared for.Which of your beliefs are you most likely wrong about?.What’s the farthest you’ve ever been from another human?.What views do you hold religiously, almost irrationally?.How successful do you want to be? / How ambitious are you?.What are the open tabs on your browser right now?.Ask a classic question like “what is your greatest weakness” but keep asking it again and again to break through the canned answers and see how deep and organic the later (real) answers are.How do you think this interview is going?.This is the inverse of the “Thiel question”: “What do you believe to be true that very few others in the world would agree with you on?” (which actually originated from Tyler Cowen!) and is now said to have been over-used.What is one mainstream or consensus view hat you whole-heartedly agree with?.The discussion of interview questions and strategies to do this is are the strongest part of the book but also only one chapter. Anything goes when it comes to breaking the ice and getting to know the real person that you will actually be hiring and interacting with every day.Assume that the interviewee is trying to conceal themselves and everything is a canned answer.In classic Straussian fashion, the main takeaways of the book in the foreword are trite while the actual ones are: But otherwise the book is basically a Psych 101 introduction to the Big 5 Personality types that is covered more carefully and thoroughly by its Wikipedia entry. A couple of the interview questions are interesting and a few other factoids that I’ve tried to aggregate. Maybe it is because I think so highly of Tyler Cowen that I expected the long anticipated Talent to be harder hitting and more insightful. Talent is a conversation starter on the under discussed topic of how to identify talent but not much more. ![]()
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