Asking better questions: the only skill that matters
Every significant discovery, every breakthrough in understanding, every moment of genuine learning begins the same way: with a question. Not an answer, not a statement, not a fact retrieved from memory — a question. And yet we spend almost no time learning how to ask them well. We’re taught to answer questions, to fear wrong answers, to perform knowledge rather than pursue it. The skill that matters most is the one we practice least. ...