good questions

"What if we valued young people as young people, not as potential adults?”

h/t Shuya Gong

“How am I complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want?”

—Jerry Colonna

We are very fluent in blunt, materialistic, capitalist questions: What? How soon? How much? What I hope that we can learn to do is add questions of moral imagination to that mix: questions like “Why?” and “To what human effect?” and “How much is enough?”

Look for people who have lots of great questions. Smart people are the ones who ask the most thoughtful questions, as opposed to thinking they have all the answers. Great questions are a much better indicator of future success than great answers.

Question to return to: What do I really need in this moment?

I’m no longer content to ask, “What do you think about X?” Instead, I ask, “How did you come to believe X?”