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Speaker 1: I'm Mini driver. Welcome to Many Questions, Season two. I've

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Speaker 1: always loved Pruce's question. It was originally a nineteenth century

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Speaker 1: parlor game where players would ask each other thirty five

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Speaker 1: just the scientific method, really. In asking different people the

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Speaker 1: it made me wonder, what if these quests were just

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Speaker 1: if I ask these questions as conversation starters with thought

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Speaker 1: leaders and trailblazers across all these different disciplines. So I

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Speaker 1: They are when and where were you happiest? What is

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Speaker 1: can you tell me something in your life that's grown

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