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That’s only part of what’s required to ask powerful Why questions. To do so, we must:
• Step back.
• Notice what others miss.
• Challenge assumptions (including our own).
• Gain a deeper understanding of the situation or problem at hand, through contextual inquiry.
• Question the questions we’re asking.
• Take ownership of a particular question.
While a fairly straightforward process, it begins by moving backward.
A More Beautiful Question
Warren Berger
“China has more honor students than the U.S. has students.”
To have reason cut off from the high-speed, jump-cut assistance of emotion is virtually incapacitating, as many neuroscientists have shown with patients who have suffered brain damage. Those patients can perform all sorts of logical functions; they have normal memory; and yet they are incapable of scheduling an appointment because their pure reason makes it impossible for them to decide. They can’t bookmark feelings. They have no intuition, no gut feelings. They’ve been cut off from their bodies in a sense. The most remarkable discovery of modern neuroscience is that the body controls the brain as much as the brain controls the body.
Deep Survival
Laurence Gonzales
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