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To Question Is to Consider, Not Cancel
You don’t need to avoid these questions 100% of the time. They aren’t exactly toxic. It’s just that the responses are useless. The mistake is in valuing the answers, not in asking the questions. In fact, sometimes these questions can help you transition into more concrete questioning.
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Do people have to preface questions with the statement “OK. Now for the dumb question…”?
Andy Stefanovich • Look at More: A Proven Approach to Innovation, Growth, and Change
We do know that the ability to question, whether verbally or through other means, is one of the things that separates us from lower primates. Paul Harris, an education professor8 at Harvard University who has studied questioning in children, observes, “Unlike other primates, we humans are designed so that the young look to the old for cultural info
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The first question is “Why?” Why do they behave in this manner, or why do they see things a certain way? When you ask, “Why?” the answer typically brings your biases to the surface regarding what you think about the people. It’s important to get those out in the open so that you can move past them.