ask better questions
How could technology help us be more human, not less?
Jen LinkedIn post
Q: By opening up the spectrum of feeling.
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
Questions to ask your friends
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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)
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)
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
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
what is something you deeply believe but rarely live out?
Changing the answer is evolution, Changing the question is revolution.
—Jorge Wagensberg