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A 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)
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
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Q: By opening up the spectrum of feeling.
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
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
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.