by Paul Quinn | Jun 24, 2025 | Asking - Cultural Attitudes, Communication Skills
There’s a dramatic moment in the British film Living in which Mr. Williams, a soft-spoken public works employee played by Bill Nighy, approaches his superior, Sir James, who’s refused his requests to turn a sewage-filled abandoned lot into a children’s...
by Paul Quinn | Aug 8, 2022 | Asking - Business, Asking - Cultural Attitudes
Award-winning journalist Janet Susan R. Nepales is the first Filipina member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) which votes on and presents the annual Golden Globe Awards. She was an executive co-producer of the Golden Globe Awards show (75th to...
by Paul Quinn | Jun 1, 2022 | Asking - Cultural Attitudes, Asking - Entrepreneurs, Asking - Relationships, Asking - Travel
In this article we explore my interviewee’s life-changing ask, her thoughts on Indian women’s attitudes about asking, and how she views asking differently at work and home. Adele Nandan is founder and chief experience officer of The JoYOUs Journey, a...
by Paul Quinn | May 24, 2022 | Asking - Cultural Attitudes, Asking - Travel
To Keiran Meeke’s way of thinking, tourists and travelers are not the same. Tourists are spectators. But travelers, he says, engage and learn from people. And that can be transformative. It can even give you better photos, a private viewing of the Georgian...
by Paul Quinn | May 17, 2022 | Asking - Business, Asking - Cultural Attitudes, Asking - Professional Development, Asking - Social Impact, Asking - Workplace
A few years ago, after I gave a talk at Northeastern Illinois University on the subject of asking as a life skill, a student of Asian descent raised his hand and asked if I had any stories in my book from Asian people (at the time I didn’t). When I said no, he...
