Why Questioning?
Ask yourself an interesting enough question and your attempt to find a tailor-made soltuion to that question will push you to a place where, pretty soon, you'll find yourself all by your lonesome-which I think is a more interesting place to be. - Chuck Close
Einstien saw curiosity as holy.
Clayton Christensen - questioning is seen as inefficient - we must act
Hal Gregersen
Jeff Dyer
Why don't we ask questions?
Questioning challenges authority, and disrupts established cultures, processes and systems, forcing people to have at least think about doing something differently.
To encourage or even allow questioning is to cede power.
Force people to think
It is easy not to question.
We have transitioned into always transitioning - John Seely Brown
A question that is hard (and interesting) enough that it is worth answering and easy enough that one can actually answer it. - Edward Witten
Chapter 1: The Power of Inquiry
questioning is an awareness of what we don't know.
the keys to scientific discovery is the willingness of scientists to embrace ignorance.
Right Question Institute
Rothstein has seen this phenomenon at work in the classrooms where students are instructed to think and brainstorm using only questions.
Questioning is egalitarian: "You don't have to hold a position of authority to ask a powerful question," - Polly La Barre
Face challenges, problems and the questions they raise as opportunities: "how might we make the most of this situation?"
Whether we're talking about countries, communities, families, or individuals, "we all live in the world our questions create."
One of the most important things questioning does is to enable people to think and act in the face of uncertainty.
Netflix
Pixar
Polaroid
Joichi Ito - MIT Media Lab. Life-long adaptation. The comfortable expert must go back to being restless learner - Relentless learner.
Xerox
Palo Alto Research Centre
Deloitte Centre for the Edge
Our new civic and professional life is all about doubt. About questioning the status quo, questioning marketing or political claims, and most of all questioning what's next. Seth Godin
Computers are useless, they only give answers - Picasso
IBM Watson
Should we question an education system based around teaching students to memorize facts.
Is "knowing" obsolete - Sugata Mitra
Adventure
If you don't have that disposition to question, you're going to fear change. But if you're comfortable questioning, experimenting, connecting things - then change is something that becomes an adventure. And if you can see it as an adventure, then you're off and running. John Seely Brown
Everything begins with Why
The first stage is why.
First confronting, formulating, and framing the initial question that articulates the challenge at hand, and trying to gain some understanding of context.
- why does this exist?
- why does it create a need/opportunity and for whom?
- why has no one address this?
- why do you personally want to spend time on it?
Innovative quetioners, when faced with situations that are less than ideal, inquire as to why, trying to figure out what's lacking?
Introduce tension - Sarah Harvey
We get these breakthroughs, when someone looks at the way things have always been done and asks why? - David Pogue
Gretchen Rubin - The Happiness Project
Min Basadur - problem-finding - business consultant.
I have a thought experiment - why do we have a system that has adversary engrained within the process. That is the fundamental question we are trying to answer. OR
We are asking the question, "why do we have a system..."
IDEO
Why - What if - How - Solution
Creative Problem Solving Institute
Graham Wallas
A journey of inquiry is bound to lead you into the unknown (as it should), but if you have a sense of the kinds of questions to ask at various stages along the way, you've at least got some road markings.
The Process. Lets think about how to formulate a process of discovery.
Slow down
Exploring What If possibilities is a wide-open, fun stage of questioning and should be not be rushed.
Are we too enthralled with answers, are we afraid of questions, especially those that linger too long - Stuart Firestein, Ignorance
We try to answer too quickly. Questions result from connecting existing ideas in unusual and interesting ways. Einstein. Combinatorial thinking.
Creative Synthesis - Sarah Harvey
Inside the box
Failing Forward
Education with Leo (1)Chapter 2: Why We Stop Questioning
Why do kids ask so many questions? (and hwo do we really feel about that?)
Maybe we are simply worn out by the sheer volume of inquiry among young children
Without the ability to conceive of more than one possible way that things might standin in the world, why ask a question? - Paul Harris - Trusting What You're Told
Stewart Mostofsky
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Hal Gregersen
Alison Gopnik - keep preschool for exploration and discovery - unstructured.
Why does questioning fall off a cliff
Daniel Pink
But many educators and learning experts contend that our current system of education does not encourage, teach, or in some cases even tolerate questioning
Tony Wagner
Somehow, we've defined the goal of schooling as enabling you to have more 'right answers' than the person next to you. And we penalize incorrect answers. And we do this at pace — expecially now, in this highly focused test-prep universe — where we don't have time for extraneuos questions. - Tony Wagner
Dominic Randolph
Susan Engel of Williams COllege
The education system was built for the industrial age.
Matt Groening
The concensus seems to be taht this new world demands citizens who are self-learners; who are creative and resourceful: who can adjust and adapt to constrant change.
Can a school be built on questions?
Deborah Meier
What would it look and sound like in the average classroom if we wanted to make "being wrong" less threatening?
What is different about this school is you're [genuinely] interested in what we don't know, not just what we do know.
Seymour Fliegel
Five learning skills — Meier:
- Evidence — How do we know what's true or false?
- Viewpoint — How might this look if stepped into others shoes?
- Connection — Is there a pattern?
- Conjecture — What f it were different?
- Relevance — Why does this matter?
I believe you have to have an open-mindedness to the possibility that you're wrong, or that anything may be wrong. I've always been very concerned with democracy. If you can't imagine you could be wrong, what's the point of democracy? And i fyou can't imagine how or why others think differently, then how could you tolerate democracy? - Meier
Meier was trying to extend kindergarden experience thorugh all grades.
What is interesting to me? Nobody's ever asked them that before" — Nikkil Goyal
Montessori
Who is entitled to ask questions in class
Transfer ownership - make it their question.
purpose, power, control, and race and social class
If you are born to inquire, then why must it be taught?
Torture can be justified. form questions around this idea
The way you ask a question yields different results and can lead you in different directions.
What can the people thinking aobut social problems or making social policy learn from the people who are actually affected by those problems?
Steps:
- Teachers design a Question Focus
- Students produce questions
- Students improve their questions
- Students prioritise their questions
- Students and teachers decide next steps
- Students reflect on what they have learned.
Can we teach ourselves to Question?
He had an ability to reframe things — to ask questions that go at something fundamental. Sometimes the questions almost seemed stupid: There's the idea of 'the holy fool' who asks the question no one else will, an that was part of what he was doing. - William Deresiewicz
Sebastian Thrun
Udacity
The kids who actually drop out of school or who view that the real learning happens after school, they're becoming part of this massive network of maker movements that is forming. - John Seely Brown
Chapter 3: The Why, What If, and How of Innovative Questioning
Is this Why-What If-How process similar to the Integrated Design Process: Schematic Design - Detailed Design?
Why...
Why do we have to wait for the picture?
Non-experts or outsiders are often better at questioning that the experts. Reminds me of Shane Parrish mental model about Galileo and Relativity.
- Step back
- Notice what others miss
- Challenge Assumptions
- Gain a deeper understanding
- Question the questions
- Take ownership of questions
Why does stepping back help us move forward?
He stopped knowing and began to wonder.
Knowing everything stops questions. It does not open up conversations, it closes them down.
Having this sense of knowing can make us less curious and less open to new ideas and possibilities.
The Curiosity Chronicles
Sometimes he says his naivete gives othes permission to step back and rethink in ways they might not normally be comfortable doing.
Being naive allows people in. Gives them the opportunity to contribute.
You need to have a culture that engenders trust. Part of questioning is about exposing volnerability — and being okay with vulnerability as a cultural currency. We allow people to fall backwards and be caught by one another - Paul Bennett IDEO
Shoshin - Beginners mind
In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, but in teh experts there are few - Shunryu Suzuki Zen Mind, Beginners Mind
Silos are where people are safe. Old Power - New Power. They protect their silo and don't let anyone in.
You want people to come into your Domain. They are not worried about what others in the field have done. They don't see what is easy or hard. it is a pair of fresh eyes. - Machover
mindsets are flexible. Give yourself permission to act like a seven year old. Its OK.
Why did George Carlin see things the rest of us missed?
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There is always another square, another possibility if you keep looking at it. - Srinivas
Great questioners keep looking.
Shift your focus from the foreground to the background.
Einstein talked about finding the needle in the haystack and then stop looking. Keeping looking. There is a better needle.
This directly relates to Engineer-focused development. I found a solution. Hurray. Now lets walk away. We are done.
Why should you be stuck without a bed if I've got an extra air matress?
Joe Gebbia and Brian Chesky - Airbnb
Another common counterquestion that challengers can expect to be hit with is some version of Okay, genius, how would you do it better? An interesting assumption is built into this question: that if someone is going to challenge the existing ways, then they had better have an alternative ready. But its important to ask Why and What If questions even if we don't yet know the How. Getting to a better alternatyive may be a long process, but it has to start somewhere — and that starting point often involves questioning the status quo.
When you move from engineer-focus to client-focus to co-creation, it doesn't mean that an engineer or client focus solution is not going to be the final solution. The exercise is about ruling out other solutions.
Why must we "question the question"?
5 whys. A method to get the core of the question.
Sakichi Toyoda
What's required is a willingness to go out into the world with a curious and open mind, to ovserve closely, and—perhaps most important, to listen.
Contextual inquiry requires a commitment to the question you're exploring.
Why do some people act on a question?
What If...
What if we could map the DNA of music?
Pandora
Tim Westergreen
Can we go from Why to How and skip the What If stage?
If the word "why" has a penetrative power, enabling the questioner to get past assumptions and dig deep into problems, the words "What If" have a more expansive effect—allowing us to think without limits or constraints, firing the imagination.
The What If stage is the blue-sky moent of questioning, when anything is possible. Those possibilities may not survive the more practical How stage; but its critical to innovation that there be a time for wild, improbable ideas to surface and to inspire.
In order for imagination to flourish, there must be an opportunity to see things as other than what they currently are or appear to be. This begins with a simple question: "What If"? It is a process of introducing something strange and perhaps even demonstrably untrue into our current situation or perspective. John Seely Brown
The beauty of the What If stage of questioning is that its a time when off-the-wall ideas are welcome.
Einstein
Combinatorial thinking - Connective inquiry - smart recombinations
Whatever one calls it, this mix-and-match mental process is at the root of creativity and innovation.
We don't have to invent from scratch. We can use as raw materials, that which already exists.
The creative act is no longer about building something out of nothing but rather building something new out of cultural products that already exist Wired
The nature of innovation is that we build new ideas out of existing ideas. David Kord Murray
What if I put this together with that?
What if your brain is a forest, thick with trees? (And what if the branches touch?)
Divergent thinking
Chen-Bo Zhong
While Why is "beginners' mind", What If is useful to approach with some aquired knowledge. And useful with diverse viewpoints. It also helps to have a wide base of knowledge that may be unrelated. The more eclectic, the more possibilities.
What if you sleep with a question? (Will you wake with an answer?)
Process
For a questioner, its important to spend time with challenging questions instead of try to answer them right away. By living with a question, thinking about it and then stepping away from it, allowing it to marinate, you give your brain a chnace to come up with the kinds of fresh insights and What If possibilities that can lead to breakthroughs.
Zhong theorises that it is best to switch between attentive and inattentive moments.
Museums are the custodians of epiphanies. George Lois
What if your ideas are wrong and your socks don't match
Thinking wrong
Edward de Bono
Stefan Sagmeister
John Bielenberg
Divergent thinking—generate a wide range of ideas, including offbeat ones, in the early stages of problem solving.
The mind is inclined to use familiar neural pathways.
I don't agree with divergent thinking. Creative Synthesis is superior.
Kathleen Taylor
Thining wrong stimulates new neural pathways.
Tom Monahan
Luke Williams
What if we could not fail? Envision doing the impossible?
How
How can we give form to our questions?
Gauri Nanda
The rubber hits the road.
Commit to one idea - hard. You have to narrow possibilities and converge.
If you want everyone to have the same mental model of a problem, the fastest way to do it is with a picture. David Sibber
A prototype is a question embodied - Diego Rodriguez IDEO
How do you build a tower that doesn't collapse (even after you put the marshmallow on top)?
Eric Ries - Lean Startup phenomenon. Ries maintains that entrepreneurs, existing companies - or anyone creating something new — must find ways to constrantly experiment and quickly put new ideas out into teh world for public consumtion, rhatn than devoting extenisvee resources tand time to trying to perfect ideas behind closed doors.
How can you learn to love a broken foot?
Failing enthusiastically
questioning is how you learn to learn from failure.
In this failure, what went right? Bob Sutton Stanford University
In analysing a series of setbacks, a key question to ask is Am I failing differently each time?
If you keep making the same mistakes again and again, you aren't learning anything. If you keep making new and different mistakes, that means you are doing new thingks and learning new things. David Kelley IDEO
Dissonance can be actually be more valuable than resonance. Dissonance is the most misunderstood kind of feedback. We really should welcome it and learn to make the most of it. Paul Bottino Harvard
You don't learning anything by having people agree with you.
How might we create a symphony together?
Scott Page
If we have people with different tools, they will get stuck in differnt places.
Diversity
We have two amazing things available to us. We have near infinite resource of information at our fingertips —no other generation has had access to that. And we have this immediacy of human connection. You combine all of that information and that connection with people, and what we have is a gloval brain to tap into. Mick Ebeling
We could use Radial to tap into these two things. Get access to information and connect everyone together.
Reaching out to potential collaborators can require a leap of faith for those accustomed to trying to solve problems on their own.
Among the concerns/questions: Will the idea still be mine? Why would anyone help? If I usually come up with ideas by myself, how will I work with others?
Sharing a question with others is akin to issuing a challenge that a certain type of curious-minded person may find hard to resist.
As for the answer, it belongs to whoever gets to it first. Holding back ideas—hoarding your beautiful questions—is usually pointless because its hard to make headway on something hidden in a drawer. Better to bring a question out into the light of day and trust that, with the help from others, you'll get something out of it—a solution, a learning experience, an insight, a fresh perspective, a sense of purpose—that will be yours.
IDP - bring questions out into the light of day and trust that others will help.
Chapter 4: Questioning in Business
Why do smart businesspeople screw up?
The real breakthrough for business is at the lower end of the market. Clayton Christensen
Companies would need to move away from all they had worked so hard to build.
IDP - Similar to breaking down silos
Business people had not been trained to question. They had been given a comprehensive toolkit of every problem with prescriptive solutions.
Why not to do your MBA.
We must ask more expansive questions, not small-minded questions. We need to move away from efficiency, efficiency, efficiency.
Keith Tamashita
Why are we in business? (And by the way - what business are we really in?)
Patagonia
What is our company's purpose on this earth?
Who have we (as a company) historically been when we've been at our best?
What was that higher purpose at the outset? And how can we rally people around that today?
Whom must we fearlessly become?
Product come and go, leaders come and go, trends come and go, but thorugh all of that, you need to know the answer to teh question "What is true about us, at our core? Yamashita
What business are we in now?
Nike - digital device
What if our company didn't exist?
What if the company didn't exist?
Clay Christensen
What should we stop doing?
What if money were no object? How might we approach this project differently?
Removing restrictions allows people to imagine freely.
Or, imposing restrictions can also be effective to imagination.
What if we could only charge 10 dollars for a 100 dollar service?
Vijay Govindarajan
What if we could become a cause and not just a company?
What if we could become a cause and not just a company?
People care more than ever about how companies behave, what a company's values are, what the company stands for.
What does the world need most; what are we uniquely able to provide?
What if we asked people NOT to use our service?
How can we make a better experiment?
Anytime you start something new it is an experiment, whether you believe it or not. Because until it is proven to work, its not a fact that it will work. Eric Ries
what will we learn?
most companies are full of ideas, but they don't know how to go about finding out if those idesa work. If you want to harvest all those idesa, allow employees to experiment more—so they can find out the answers to their questions themselves.
Tim Ogilvie
Where in the company is a safe place to ask radical questions?
If we brainstorm in questions, will lightning strike?
The best creations are in informal and relaxed environments, not when you are trying hard to be creative.
Brainstorming contradicts this.
Debra Kaye
shackled by peer pressure.
Generate questions, not solutions, to generate ideas.
The Right Question Institute —which specializes in teaching students to tackle problems by generating questions, not solutions, has found there is more creativity when generating questions.
Answers are judged more harshly than questions.
Regular brainstorming for ideas often hits a wall because we only have so many ideas. Part of the reason we hit that wall is we're asking the wrong question. That is point to step back and do question-storming. Hal Gregersen
Converge around the correct question.
RQI says come away with 3 great questions you want ot explore further.
How might we....?
don't use: can or should.
The how park assumes there are solutions out there—it provides creative confidence. Might says we can put ideas out there that might work or might not—either way, its OK. And the we part says we're going to do it together and build on each other's ideas. Tim Brown IDEO
Sidney Parnes
Min Basadur
Take a consumer perspective (rather than copy a competetor.)
Charles Warren
Google+
Make qusetions constrained, not too broad, not too narrow.
Will anyone follow a leader who embraces uncertainty?
Dev Patnaik
Adam Bryant
Discover the future
The myth is that business leaders need to be all-knowing, decisive, and in possession of infallible "gut instincts" all this leaves little room for questioning.
Randy Komisar
Square
Reduction —> creativity
The questions don't all have to come from the leader either. Sometimes good to come from outside the company.
Peter Drucker
Job was not to serve up answers. The answers have to be yours. Drucker's strength was to be ignorant and ask a few basic questions.
Who is your customer?
What business are you in?
Jim Hackett - Steelcase
Leaders clear vision should constrantly be modified and sharpened through deep reflection and questioning.
There needs to be a balance between thinking and doing. The importance of thinking has been ignored.
Spark and encourage questioning in others.
Should mission statements be mission questions?
How might we... make a world a better place
A mission statement that is a question sends a message that this is what we are striving for—we are not there yet, it is a journey we are on. Says it can change and adapt. Don't make it sound like you are already there. invite collaboration and participation.
How might we create a culture of inquiry?
Why don't we question?
There are plenty of corporate cultures we encounter that shut down questioning.
They want to deal in answers
Why are we doing it this way?
Not everyone wants to have to continually defend proven methods. It can be frustrating to have to explain and rationalize.
Perceived threat to authority.
Why should we question?
Help ensure that creativity and fresh, adaptive thinking flows throughout the organisation.
Gregersen INSEAD
Nurturing questioning must start at the top.
When employees are invited to submit questions to the company's top executives, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Charles Warren - Google
It's very fulfilling to sit in those sessions and know that anybody in the company can ask any question, and nothing is off-limits
Dont' get personal.
How do you reward questioning?
Failure
It's a radical notion for most business, but failed experiments should be rewarded along side proven successes, particularly if the failure leads to valuable learning.
Don't shut down questions - such as you raised it, now you fix it.
Jeff Weiner - LinkedIn
3M
W.L. Gore
Gore
Regarded as one of the most inovative companies, Gore is also known for its distinctive corporate cutlrue: It is one of the flattest, least hierarchical large companies in existence.
Teal
Gore trains people to ask questions.
Embrace curiosity as a fundamental value.
Transform a workplace into a learning space.
THinking 2.0 advocates that people have to learn how to find the tensions in arguments, and how to build the scaffolding of questions around problems.
Tension
Managemetn must understand that the scaffold around problems is made up of a lot of questions, so don't get perturbed by the number of them or try to limit them.
For innovative questioning:
- Keep positive
- use language that is open and inclusive
- avoid highly practical questions - cost, who, fails
- defer judgement
- don't play devils advocate
- make impractical (What If) then work to practical later (How)
It's more about going out into the world and getting better at observing and listening. Tim Brown
Encourage employees to journey outside teh bubble.
Employ people who are naturally inquisitive.
Job Interview
What if a job interview tested one's ability to ask questions, as well as answer them?
Tell everyone to come in for an interview with a list of three questions. Make them open-ended, Why, What If and How questions. An untapped opportunity perhaps.
Do the questions indicate that the candidate did some research before forming them?
Feed off those questions and ask more questions around them. RQI follow-up questions to improve and advance the questions. CHallenge What If qusetions with Why questions.
Chapter 5: Questioning for Life
Why should we "live the question"?
What if we could invest as a means and not an ends?
You just don't know about people and what drives them, until you spend time sitting on the floor, listening to someone tell you their story Jacqueline Novogratz
Integrated design
Perspective taking
Why are you climbing the mountain?
The more, more, more approach cannot last.
Mark Williams
We are always rushing around going from task to task, without realising what we are doing. We are escaping a preditor?
Jeff Weiner
Looking back on your career in twenty years, what do you want to you you've accomplished?
What are you all about, what makes you tick?
David McCullough
Are you climbing the mountain to plant the flag? Climb it so you can see the world not so that the world can see you.
Why am I climbing this mountatin in the first place?
you're climbing the wrong mountain.
What is waiting for me at the top?
What am I going to do once I get there?
Am I enjoying the climb itself? Should I slow down, speed up?
What am I leaving behind, down below?
Why are you evading inquiry?
Avoid questioning?
- counterproductive. just want the answer.
- there is no right time to ask the question.
- knowing the right question.
- What if we find we hae no good answers to the important questions?
There are whole industries dedicated to giving answers.
Best coaches emphasise there is no substitute for self-questioning.
Peter Drucker.
Kasper Hulthin
"answers don't cut it, I need help with the process of figuring this out for myself."
Eric Maisel
No one ever regrets taking the path that leads to a better story. Hagel
Kelly Carlin
You can change your path in life. You have control.
If you fear not having answers to the questions you might ask yourself, remember that one of the hallmarks of innovative problem solvers is that they are willing to raise questions without having any idea of what the answer migth be. Part of being able to tackle complex and difficult questions is accepting that there is nothing wrong with not knowing. People who are good at questioning are comfortable with uncertainty.
Inventors learn by doing that they know that there will be a way out of the darkness of uncertainty and into the light.
Questioning should be done as a matter of habit. There should be a process around it in you.
Before we "lean in," what if we stepped back?
For people geared to acheiving success or just getting things done, the idea of slowing down or, worse still, steeping back, can seem counterintuitive—and seemingly at odds with cultural message urging us "go for it" or "lean in" as we pursure challenges and embrace opportunity. But while the notions of "stepping back" and "leaning in" might seem contrary, someone who pauses, at times, to question and consider can also fully angage, act boldly, and seize oppotunities. Stepping back to question can actually help with leaning in by providing a clearer sense of direction and purpose.
John Cleese - Tortoise enclosure
deep questioning is a form of creative thinking.
Tiffany Shlain
internet distraction
When is my tech Shabbat?
ERic Maisel
Discipline is required to "sit with a question" to create mental space for it by pushing aside the mundane "small thoughts". RADIAL
Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it...Its only by concentrating, sticking to the question, being patient, letting all the parts of my brain come into play, that I arrive at an original idea. William Deresiewicz
What if we start with what we already have?
David Cooperrider
Tal Ben-Shahar
Grateful journal
Roko Belic
Tom Shadyac
What has worked for me and how do I bring more of it into my life.
What did I love doing as a child - Interview
The things we loved doing at age 6 or 7 we probably still love doing today.
Jacqueline Novogratz
What are you doing when you feel most beautiful?
What if you made one small change?
The word experiment may conjure up images of lab coats and microscopes. But experiments can be thought of as simply, the ways you act upon a question. You wonder about something new or different; you try it out; you assess the results. That's an experiment.
We should be thinking about everything as an experiment.
every aspect of life is an experiment that can be better understood if we think of it that way. Roger Schank
A.J Jacobs
It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking, than to think your way into a new way of acting. Millard Fuller
"act as if"
Herminia Ibarra - INSEAD
What if I try this?
What if you could not fail?
Robert Schuller
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
Regina Dugan - the question makes you feel uncomfortable.
Sebastian Thrun
The question gives you permission to think big.
Our biggest barrier is fear of failure.
Failure Fetish
Modern industrial management is still predictated largely on mitigating risks and preventing errors. Peter Sims
What does failure mean to me? Is it an end state, or a temporary part of a process. Which are acceptable and not acceptable?
Amy Edmondson - Psychological Safety
What if I fail—how will I recover? Jonathan Fields
Is this a better question? More realistic? More empowering.
Failure is rarely total.
What if I succeed?
What is truly worth doing, regardless of if you fail or succeed? Chris Guillabeau
How might we pry off the lid and stir the paint?
Peavey
Questions must be
- open
- curious
- slightly provocative
- (never judegemental)
Strategic Questioning
When people are looking at issues from different perspectives it becomes problematic if one side tries to impose an answer on the other
Avoid Answers
If we don;t agree on an answer yet, can we agree on a question?
Jon Bond
Don't ask questions that require a yes or no response. These close down discussions. Open discussions.
The art of "pull" vs "push"
Questions must be culturally aware, insightful, respectful, and inviting.
Why might they see the issue this way? Why do I see it differently? What assumptions are we operating under?
Challenge your assumptions by following someone who disagrees with you.
What are the odds I am wrong?
EMPATHETIC QUESTIONING
Family mission statement
How will you find your beautiful question?
Doug Rauch
We find purpose when we persue something bigger than ourselves. Find your area of significance.
How can I encourage questioning in my child?
Encourage your own personal curiosity - this will inspire others.
Keep yourself away from the answers, but alive in the middle of the questino.
What do you want to say? Why does it need to be said? Can I say it in a way that has never been said before? How might I do this?
Colum McCann
What if we cultivated ignorance, instead of fearing it?