As a podcast host, I am constantly in search of better questions to ask my guests. I recently read the following passage in Kevin Kelly’s The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future. I wanted to share it and challenge you to ask better questions. A good question is not concerned with a correct answer. A good question cannot be answered immediately. A good question challenges existing answers. A good question is one you badly want answered once you hear it, but had no inkling you cared before it was asked. A good question creates new territory of thinking. A good question reframes its own answers. A good question is a probe, a what-if scenario. A good question skirts on the edge of what is known and not known, neither silly nor obvious. A good question cannot be predicted. A good question will be the sign of an educated mind. A good question is one that generates many other good questions. A good question may be the last job a machine will learn to do. A good question is what humans are for. In the spirit of this passage, I want to share a question I heard in a recent conversation with some friends. Hope it creates some new territory for thinking.
“Are you running from something or running towards something?” |
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