Questions

Being made to think of questions you least want to be asked

What You Need

• Nothing in particular

Method

In this training task, you will come up with questions that would expose things you never want others to know about.

We'll work backward from the answers.
First, think of a "fact" about yourself that you absolutely never want others to know.
It should be something that, while you don't want it known, would satisfy your masochistic tendencies if it were accidentally revealed to others.
For example, "having 5 million yen in secret debt from your husband" is less appropriate than "having your anus stretched by your boss with whom you're having an affair."
Choose the "fact" you most want to keep hidden from among several possibilities.

Come up with three seemingly ordinary questions that would lead to revealing this "fact."

Let me give you an example to make this clearer.
Let's say your "fact" is "In middle school, I was forced to lick a classmate's shoes while kneeling, and I got wet and excited while crying."
Three questions might be:

• What's your most unforgettable memory with a middle school classmate?
• What's the most memorable thing you've ever tasted?
• What makes you excited just by looking at it?

Or if your "fact" is "Having your anus stretched by your boss with whom you're having an affair," the questions might be:

• What kind of relationship do you have with your current boss?
• What are you currently working hard to achieve?
• Which part of your body do you feel has changed from your former self?

The important thing is not to describe the "fact" itself, but to frame fragments of the "fact" as subjects of general questions.
Looking at the three questions alone, one shouldn't be able to reconstruct the original "fact," but they should hint that there's something behind them.
It's about creating questions that suggest something through nuance.

Once you've created the questions, imagine being strictly interrogated about their contents as a masochist, and think about how you would answer.
When reporting, keep the "fact" hidden and only share the three questions.

Points to Note

This is a difficult training task that requires deep self-reflection.
It demands a meta, or even diabolical, perspective.
You need to push yourself to the limit of how you can transform and partially reveal the shameful "fact" that you can't show others.

We naturally avert our eyes from "facts" we don't want others to know.
To complete this training task, you must look squarely at the "fact."
Perhaps the psychological pressure of doing so is the true value of this training task.