good questions
on the art of asking questions, as well as examples of good questions to use in all areas of your life - team building, interviewing, improving relationships, research, and more
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good questions
I love the question @jordancooper asks founders- “if there were one thing i needed to understand to see as much value in your business as you do, what would it be and let’s talk about that.”
In contrast, good planning explores, imagines, analyzes, tests, and iterates. That takes time. Thus, slow is a consequence of doing planning right, not a cause. The cause of good planning is the range and depth of the questions it asks and the imagination and the rigor of the answers it delivers. Notice that I put “questions” before “answers.” It’
... See moreBent Flyvbjerg • How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
“Is the life I am living the same as the life that wants to live in me?” - Parker Palmer
Laura McKowen • On the life that wants to live in you.
I've been looking for an example of this for a year and I'm pretty sure they don't exist:
- Worth 1B+
- Married to original spouse
- Outstanding moral virtue
- Kids are all relatively successful
- Kids have a good relationship with parents
Any idea? cc @FoundersPodcast
careful who you worship
When have I felt most joyful this year and what steps can I take to recreate those conditions?
3-2-1: On creating the conditions for joy, how to go to hell, and the simple way to clarify your thinking
I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live ev... See more
Maria Popova • Live the Questions: Rilke on Embracing Uncertainty and Doubt as a Stabilizing Force
live your goddamn questions
