Blog ~ A More Beautiful Question by Warren Berger

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In case you missed it…

Two new popular posts in my ongoing “The Questionologist” column for PsychologyToday.com, and a great podcast conversation about the power of questions to improve your life.

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.

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.

A Tool for These Uncertain Times

It is especially important in these times to embrace a “questioning mindset”—an attitude or disposition that is curious, open to new information, and willing to ask challenging questions.

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?

“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.