Questions Are The Answer

17 May 2024 · 1 min

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Short YouTube monologue by Clegg arguing that improving the skill of asking questions yields large life improvements. The speaker lists domains helped by questioning (thinking, communicating, learning, connecting, implementing), diagnoses common barriers (fear of appearing ignorant, need for approval, preoccupation with what to say next), and concludes with a direct call to practice asking questions and listening for answers.

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If you desire to improve at a skill that can impact your life probably more than any other skill, I would recommend that you get better at asking questions because questions are the answer. I recently did recorded a YouTube video with the same title Questions are the answer they are Questions are the answer to better thinking Questions are the better the answer to better communicating Questions are the answer to better learning Questions are the answer to better connecting Questions are the answer to better implementing Most people are so bound up and wound up with what they want to say next. The but they don't ask questions and if they do, they don't listen for the answer. So many people are so needy for approval that they need people to think they're smart. So if they don't know something, they're afraid to ask, well, what about this? Or how does this work? Or what does that mean? I promise you, if you will get better at asking questions, the quality of your life will increase exponentially.