Blog ~ A More Beautiful Question by Warren Berger

How asking questions at work can help you
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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.
Questolutions: The Power of Questions to Get Things Done
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Why do questions motivate us more than resolutions?
These 5 questions are “creativity killers.” If you find you’re asking yourself any of them, just stop.
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The questions we ask ourselves about creativity also can undermine creative confidence or cause us to misdirect our efforts. Here are five questions that kill creativity…
It’s Back to School as Usual, But in Many Questioning Classrooms It’s Not School as Usual
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The curiosity and engagement unleashed by a questioning environment is undeniably powerful and lasting.
36 Questions
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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.

BUSINESSES and questioning

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.

Innovation lessons from George Carlin

Observe, Question, Reinvent: 5 Lessons for Seeing Clearly from George Carlin

The Rise of the Curious Leader

Welcome to the era of the curious leader, where success may be less about having all the answers and more about wondering and questioning.

Bringing beautiful questions to South Carolina

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

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.

Who is entitled to ask questions in class? {Excerpt from AMBQ}

The issue of “who gets to ask the questions in class” is one that touches on matters of purpose, power, control, and, arguably, even race and social class. An excerpt from A MORE BEAUTIFUL QUESTION.

Find Your Passion with These 8 Thought-Provoking Questions

The following eight questions—shared by a noteworthy lineup of entrepreneurs, innovators, consultants, and creative thinkers—can help you figure out where your heart lies and what you really ought to be doing.

The inquiring mind of Reggie Watts: A Top 12 list of his questions

I don’t know if they qualify as “beautiful questions” but there’s something oddly fascinating about the imaginative questions that band leader Reggie Watts asks the guests of James Corden’s The Late Late Show.

8 Ways to Improve a Question

How do you improve a question? I came up with these eight ways to take an existing question and make it better.

“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.

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.

Google and “beautiful questions”

“You should sue Google!” That half-joking suggestion was from a friend who’d seen a new TV ad for Google—a 1-minute ode to the power of a question.

Want to change your life? Start with this “small” question

One question could help you make simple, but meaningful, improvements in your work and life. Interviews with authors A. J. Jacobs and Caroline Arnold.