I Keep Six Honest Serving Men
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I Keep Six Honest Serving Men
To get inspired, the preternaturally curious people I interviewed tend to ask five questions time and again: •What if? •Am I sure? •What’s next? •Have I looked closely enough? •Have I looked everywhere? Let’s ask these questions ourselves and go into a little more detail as we try to understand how they can help us become inspired.
Dr Costas Andriopoulos • Purposeful Curiosity
David Whyte Questions to ask yourself:
1. What helped you get here that you need to give away
Who are you when you’re the best to yourself and the world around you?
What is the beautiful question you’ve craddles through years of doubt?
What is too precious to ask?
How can you be friends with your longings?
What would you be if you failed to be yourself?
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We think in questions. If knowledge is a complex web inside the mind, each node is a question, and each connecting line the information you’ve picked up on the journey from node to node. The pursuit of knowledge is the accumulation of questions. They shape our identity as much by being asked as by being answered.
Sindhu Shivaprasad • Questions Are Desire Paths of Curiosity
SOMETIMES... See more
by David Whyte
Sometimes
if you move carefully
through the forest,
breathing
like the ones
in the old stories,
who could cross
a shimmering bed of leaves
without a sound,
you come to a place
whose only task
is to trouble you
with tiny
but frightening requests,
conceived out of nowhere
but in this place
beginning to lead everywhere.
Requests to stop what
you