Good questions change everything. Good questions shine a light in places we didn’t think to look. They push us forward and they open doors to areas we may not have thought to look. They challenge us. They change us.

Good questions prompt rather than direct.

They encourage people to level up & find their own north. They’re purposefully provocative but careful and considered. A good question holds space for contemplation and reflection without forcing vulnerability or intimacy.

Good questions take work to ask .

A measured thoughtful generous question isn’t one that’s been tossed at you from afar. It comes from empathy, from thoughtful generous provocation . .

Good questions take work to answer .

They push you somewhere new. They pivot . . what you may have thought or where you might have been heading. Because they require honesty, if you’re really going to answer them.

They’re humbling, and sometimes they take a lot of emotional labour. But if you’re willing to do the work . . they can be change agents. For your thinking, your writing, your work, your relationships . . and your life.

Great questions prompt us to reflect and self-correct.

They encourage emergent learning, infinitely more useful & powerful than experience alone.

The experience of grappling, solving, reflecting & responding . . to your own work, your own life . . and the story you tell yourselves about them both.

Collect good questions and practice using them, hearing them and responding to them.

🌱 Can you think of a really good question you’ve ever been asked?