ask better questions
A proverb on the importance of asking questions:
“The person who asks is a fool for five minutes, but the person who does not ask remains a fool forever.”
“The person who asks is a fool for five minutes, but the person who does not ask remains a fool forever.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: The 80/20 Principle, mastery, and the importance of asking questions
a good what-if question needs to assume that nothing is unmovable.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Which came first, the neuron or the feeling? What was the universe like before there were any living beings around to observe it? Does it feel like anything to be a mushroom, or a bee, or a rock? What happens to your subjectivity when you die?
I’m not sure we’ll ever know. But I do know that life gets richer when you contemplate that either one of t
... See moreA beautiful question shapes a beautiful mind. And so the ability to ask beautiful questions — often in very un-beautiful moments — is one of the great disciplines of a human life. And a beautiful question starts to shape your identity as much by asking it as it does by having it answered.
(David Whyte, On Being)
What are you convincing yourself is true?
If you want to understand someone’s dreams, ask: How can I help you become the person you want to be?
Jessica Hagy • Ten Infrequently Asked Questions
One of the tricks to living fully is not so much to lengthen your life as to deepen your life. How can you deepen the time that you have?
(paraphrasing Alain de Botton)
Changing the answer is evolution, Changing the question is revolution.
—Jorge Wagensberg
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