 Do you have a stock "question you like to ask"? I do (but that's not it :); mine is "what's interesting?"
I've managed a lot of people over the years, and conducted a lot of one-on-one meetings, and it's good to have a way to get the conversation started ... :)
I asked DALL-E "create an image which illustrates the concept of interesting-ness; this is the result :)
I claim interestingness comes from surprise. We find things interesting if they contradict or modify our preconceptions, if they fill in the blanks between our defaults, if they expand our understanding, if they are unexpected. We are curious creatures and curiosity is that desire for interesting-ness.
Conversely, things which confirm what we already know are uninteresting. The expected is not compelling.
A related concept is attention. We give our attention to things we find interesting. Attention can be thought of as how we choose to spend time: We invest our time in interesting things.
For this reason, being interesting is a matter of communicating unexpected or contradictory things. This has to do with the audience; what do they know and expect. When you meet someone you don't know much about them and you have few expectations, so almost everything about them is interesting. As you get to know them better, their degree of ongoing interesting-ness will be related to their capacity to surprise you :)
I find the whole concept of interestingness to be quite interesting!
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