ask better questions
what is something you deeply believe but rarely live out?
Are you a people person or an ideas person?
What I’m asking is whether a person is primarily motivated by an interest in people or ideas. Do they do what they do out of a fundamental desire to serve and love humans, or are they more driven by an appetite for new and novel ideas?
via Molly Mielke
If you want to prompt someone to be authentic and playful and generative, you usually just need to ask them something where they have a rich experience to pull from but have never pulled an answer from that experience before . If you ask two or three increasingly detailed questions about something they tell you, you get there.
Henrik Karlsson • Looking for Alice
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?