# 12 favorite questions or problems An interesting way to explore your goals is to **identify your 12 favorite problems, and derive your goals from those**. What are your 12 favorite questions or problems? Those represent what you are mostly interested in, what you're passionate about, what you want to work on, learn more about, etc. Those questions or problems are the ones you can use to filter everything you come across in life. Whatever you choose to focus on, **don’t settle on “average”. Being awesome is a choice you get to make.** > [[Feynman used to keep 12 favorite problems in his mind and tested new ideas against them]] ## Questions to ponder [[Tiago Forte]] has identified a number of questions you can ask yourself: - What is slowing me down? - How can I? … - How can I help others to … ? - How does X relate to Y? - How do I… ? - What does it look like to … ? - What would be possible if … ? - What do I want with … ? - What would happen if … ? - What would have to be true to … ? - What does the world need more (or less) of ? ## Related - [[Ambitious goals make things happen]] - [[Feynman used to keep 12 favorite problems in his mind and tested new ideas against them]]