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Questions Are Desire Paths of Curiosity
A question is a lens that frames how you see things.
A question is a provocation.
A question is what stirs up new associations and brings up mental cues.
A question leads, and directs.
A good question gets to the heart of things.
A bad question gives you red herrings.
Agalia Tan added
- Get good at asking the right questions. Elon said, the answer is usually the easy part. The hard part is asking the right questions. Questions are the only tool we have to inquire about this reality. It is our pickaxe to inspect the world we live in. It also happens to be the backbone of our cognition, we literally think in questions. Getting good ... See more
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sari and added
Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question – you have to want to know – in order to open up the space for the answer to fit.
Agalia Tan added
A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
Notice that some of these questions are abstract, while others are concrete. Some express deep longings, while others are more like spontaneous interests. Many are questions about how to live a better life, while a few are focused on how to succeed professionally. The key to this exercise is to make them open-ended questions that don’t necessarily
... See morefrom Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential by Tiago Forte
Mike "Bagel" added
Thought provoking, open ended questionsKnowledge can no longer be thought of as a destination, a fixed point, or a static state. Curiosity is a verb for living rather than a noun to hold. In this conception of learning we may not seek instructors of knowledge as much as guides to experiences.
from Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures by Seth Goldenberg
Keely Adler and added
- The beauty of the rabbit hole, and the warren you create by falling down it, is how it activates your curiosity to generate new, reflective pockets of information and knowledge. And the better you become at “finding,” the more portals emerge, and the farther you get from a complete sense of having found. The state of curiosity is one of abundance: ... See more
from How to Fall Down a Rabbit Hole by Syllabus
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- Curiosity seems to be more individual than fastidiousness about truth or resistance to being told what to think. To the degree people have the latter two, they're usually pretty general, whereas different people can be curious about very different things. So perhaps curiosity is the compass here. Perhaps, if your goal is to discover novel ideas, yo... See more
from How to Think for Yourself by paulgraham.com
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