
When “just asking questions” morphs into toxic denialism
Media provocateurs and conspiracy theorists insist that they’re “just asking questions.” But what would master questioners George Carlin and Carl Sagan think?
How and why Traci Sanders—a longtime school librarian and connoisseur of children’s books—put together a fun curated library of kids’ questioning books here on AMoreBeautifulQuestion.com.
This curated library of children’s books that foster the concepts of wonder, curiosity, and questioning has more than 80 entries, with quite a few Picture Books for young readers, as well as some Early Chapter Books, and a few Middle Readers. (Questioning books seem to taper off for older children, which is another topic.) Whether […]
Here’s a round-up of a few of the questioners and quotes we spotted from the past six months, in case you missed my original posts on the firehose that is Twitter.
Edgar H. Schein’s excellent book “Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling” reminds us that good questioning often requires that we set aside ego.
Welcome to the era of the curious leader, where success may be less about having all the answers and more about wondering and questioning.
Ian Leslie’s fascinating and important new book Curiosity highlights for me the interesting relationship between questioning and curiosity, with the latter tending to inspire the former.
Steve Wozniak has lots of stories. But the ones I found most interesting have to do with Wozniak’s curiosity as a boy. When he would ask his engineer father questions, the answers changed Wozniak’s world. Whose world have you changed lately?
A repost of my HBR.org article about releasing your inner George Carlin in order to innovate.
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