WTT: The Sydney Sweeney Interview

The podcast "What Ted's Thinking" analyzes a recent viral video featuring an interview with Sydney Sweeney to highlight three essential interviewing techniques: open-ended questions, short questions, and pregnant pauses. The host, Ted, explains that the goal of an interview is to gather information and learn, contrasting this with the interviewer's approach in the clip, which he describes as a "textbook example of a bad question." He critiques the interviewer for asking a leading, lengthy question and talking for a disproportionate amount of time, while praising Sydney Sweeney's use of pauses and slow speech to appear thoughtful and in control. Ted concludes by emphasizing that short, open-ended questions and strategic pauses are effective tools for conducting revealing interviews and achieving the objective of learning.