People ask me this question all the time.

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So let me ask you this last question.

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Let me -- let me -- before you ask your actual question, let me just make this point.

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This strikes me as the best way to evaluate this idea and leads us to ask the same question about personalized genomics that the quantified self movement asks about every other metric: will it improve performance.

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Now, the teacher of this class instructed the students to ask me any question they wanted.

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When weighing your options, ask yourself a question: is this choice driven more by what inspires me, or by what frightens me?

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What you do, then, is simply ask your unconscious the question: is this person open or closed to me?

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All right, since I am in Chicago, even though my Press Secretary told me not to do this, I am going to call on a Chicagoan to ask a Chicago question.

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