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.
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What if we used questioning more in our personal lives?
What’s really going on when we “have no time” to question?
We’re running away from our own thoughts during these “too busy” days. If you’re afraid of the void, here’s why to fill it with 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.
Is questioning the starting point of creativity?
Neuroscientist Susan Greenfied offers a view inside the creative mind.
Welcome to the “Age of Adaptability”
People who used to be comfortably ensconced in the role of “expert” didn’t have to question; they had the answers, they possessed the knowledge. But what happens when you live in a time when much of that knowledge is subject to constant change, revision, or even obsolescence? Well, then you can’t be a comfortable expert anymore—you must be a restless learner.
If not you, then who?
Entrepreneur Mick Ebeling makes a difference by taking ownership of big questions.
The power of “Vuja De”
Can a shift in perspective help us to become better questioners? We’ve all heard of déjà vu. This is the opposite.
What if we had a health care system instead of a ‘sick care system?’
An imaginary prize inspires this and other questions In an interesting recent article in the New York Times headlined “Imaginary Prizes Take Aim at Real Problems,” the reporter J. Peder Zane approached a number of MacArthur Foundation fellowship winners—i.e., people who are doing groundbreaking work on various important issues—and asked them the following beautiful question: […]
What is your sentence?
A favorite question of author Daniel Pink about finding and living your purpose.
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