The One-Page Practice That Answers Questions Stuck in Your Head for Years

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🎧 In This Episode

Most of us carry questions in our heads for months or years - questions about career moves, relationships, health, purpose - and they swirl endlessly without resolution.

This week, we sit down with Mark England from Lifted to explore Kidlin’s Law: any question sufficiently worded and written down is half answered.

Mark walks us through a practical three-step process (draft, craft, supercharge) that transforms mental fog into clarity, and Ben and Patrick demonstrate the method live on the show.

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Quick Preview

• The power of externalization - Questions kept in the head swirl and are rarely answered well; writing creates distance, clarity, and sensitivity to feedback

• Questions pull, answers push - The difference between coaching by asking versus telling, and why most coaches (and people) exhaust themselves thinking they need all the right answers

• The victim mentality trap - By definition, victim mentality is characterized by having no options - often because those options haven’t been identified or written down

• One thing per question - How to avoid the kaleidoscope effect by separating compound questions into clear, specific, neutral, outcome-focused statements

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❤️‍🔥 A Deeper Dive

Big Ideas

1. Writing Is Thinking Made Visible

Alan Watts said that when we learn to think about our thinking, we become alive in a new way. The fastest way to think about our thinking is to write things down.