Blog ~ A More Beautiful Question by Warren Berger

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People in the news using beautiful questions

When you’re a questionologist, you can’t help spotting beautiful questions in your reading. Below are a few I found by chance in the news.

How asking questions at work can help you

You might be hesitant to ask questions of your bosses. But it’s important to do so because it enables you to be better at your job.

Questioning Fuels Innovation. So Why Don’t We Inquire More?

By being willing to ask ‘why,’ inquiring leaders can inspire others around them to do likewise. And as the questions proliferate, some good answers are likely to follow.

Bringing beautiful questions to South Carolina

My immersive first-year reading experience at the University of South Carolina as the chosen book/author.

It’s Back to School as Usual, But in Many Questioning Classrooms It’s Not School as Usual

The curiosity and engagement unleashed by a questioning environment is undeniably powerful and lasting.

Encouraging student questioning

Expanding my original Edutopia story by offering up some of the insights and ideas from educators that couldn’t fit in the Edutopia piece—but that are well worth sharing.

The Best Networking Advice

My recent article on questioning as a quiet person’s superpower struck a chord with author Susan Cain who called it “The Best Networking Advice I’ve Seen Yet.”

Questolutions: The Power of Questions to Get Things Done

Why do questions motivate us more than resolutions?

36 Questions

The 36 questions used in Arthur Aron’s experiment are wonderful examples of open-ended, deep questions. A discussion of the power of good questions to form lasting connections—even between strangers.

“Today, we can’t afford to become adults”

MIT’s Joichi Ito’s thoughts on change, questioning, and childlike wonder

Can questioning help us to keep up in ‘exponential times?’

Futurist John Seely Brown says “Yes!”

Is questioning the starting point of creativity?

Neuroscientist Susan Greenfied offers a view inside the creative mind.

Why should you be stuck without a bed if I’ve got an extra air mattress? {AMBQ Excerpt}

Airbnb’s $10 billion valuation all started with a Beautiful Question.

If we were kicked out of the company, what do you think the new CEO would do?

Facing disruptive change.

Why do we have to wait for the picture?

Out of the mouth of babes.

What should I read? What should I watch?

These are unusual times; everyone I know is doing a lot more reading and binge-watching than usual and they’re all (myself included) looking for suggestions.

Visualizing questioning

A new art form is flourishing—the art of visualizing talks. See how some skillful visual notetakers have made art out of my beautiful questions presentations.