> "Starting with kindergarten, tell me about your life."
Wow, don't do this. Getting to know your team is extremely important. But, this is a pretty gross pseudo-psychological way to go about it. Also people should be aware some cultures will react extremely negatively to being asked a question like this.
American's tend to have a canned response, what I call an 'origin myth' e.g. "I'm a doctor because as child my relative had (disease X) ... then later ...". They dispense these quite readily at parties and interviews. Try it out.
Ask a European why they do what they do and you'll likely get a glazed expression as they consider nature vs nurture, the class system & the deeply invasive nature of the question itself.
Wow, don't do this. Getting to know your team is extremely important. But, this is a pretty gross pseudo-psychological way to go about it. Also people should be aware some cultures will react extremely negatively to being asked a question like this.
American's tend to have a canned response, what I call an 'origin myth' e.g. "I'm a doctor because as child my relative had (disease X) ... then later ...". They dispense these quite readily at parties and interviews. Try it out.
Ask a European why they do what they do and you'll likely get a glazed expression as they consider nature vs nurture, the class system & the deeply invasive nature of the question itself.