Hayden lit up.
“Homeland,” he replied with a smile. The show revolves
around a bipolar CIA operative, Carrie Mathison, alternately brilliant and
unhinged. Hayden knew people in the CIA just like that, he said. He worked
right alongside them. He went on to talk about life inside the CIA and how he
managed the pressures of that intense 24/7 job with the normal life that no one
much thought about. For just a few minutes, the conversation came back down
to earth. Hayden was funny and approachable. My question wasn’t brilliant, just
a little different, an intentional pause in the intense discussion we’d been having,
an effort to let the conversation—and the guest—breathe.
Curveball questions are often a part of job interviews. Jean Case told me she
throws curveballs to see how people react and whether they can answer
spontaneously and creatively. “We want to see how they respond when we ask
them very nonobvious and unexpected kinds of things,” she said. Since
originality and creativity are attributes she seeks in her applicants, she pays
special attention to the answers. One of her favorite questions is:
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