Friday

Easy steps to having a great mind, asking smarter questions


Smart questions start with what, great questions start with why.


The What question  
1. Concerned with outer shell, the color, the number and the statistic.
Examples of that what is the definition? What did just fell on me?

2. It is concerned with the name, the who.  
What's your name? Who are you?

3. It addresses the looks. 
What is he wearing? 

4. The outward expression, the visual part, the book cover. Imagine the asnwer.
What is that? From where do you come?

5. It is the news, the events
What's happening?

6. The worst way to categorize people
What are you? Are you different?

7. It is basic, it is novel, it is naïve. It is the facts that are available for everyone to read. 
"What the hell!?"


The Why question
1. The deeper layer of the subject. Thought provoking. 
Why did the apple fall?

2. It is the purpose, the drive that gets people going. 
Why are you doing all of this? 

3. It is the reason because. 
Why did that happen to me? 

4. It is reflective. 
Why him? Why me? 

5. It is the ideas. 
Why will they make it happen? Why do they care?

6. A better way to judge people, helps you understand.
Why are you?

7. It is advanced, it is the question children ask and ususally get, "I don't know" from adults. It is core. 

Art work by Jana Traboulsy (c) 2010

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