Humble Inquiry, Second Edition: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling

we must become better at asking and do less telling in a culture that overvalues telling

What comes out of our mouth and our overall demeanor in the conversation is deeply dependent on what is going on inside our head. We cannot be appropriately humble if we misread or misjudge the situation we are in and what is appropriate in that situation. We must become aware that our minds are capable of producing biases, perceptual distortions,

If I can ask you a question and you generate the answer yourself, the odds increase substantially.

Humble Inquiry is the skill and the art of drawing someone out, of asking questions to which you do not already know the answer, of building a relationship based on curiosity and interest in the other person