This blog has been quiet for a while – ever since I Summited Kilimanjaro. I suppose the experience was so profound that I had to sit back and reflect a little. Unfortunately, unlike Moses of old who went to the mountaintop and brought some tablets, I did not bring any. Many friends were already queuing for tablets of the Samsung and android types.
I have referred in a previous blog about the one thing. This is about
constantly asking ourselves what the one thing that we need to do at any one
time is, that unlocks everything else.
It is about the one action that will have the Domino effect on all the
other things that you need done.
Human learning overtime has been driven or influenced by asking
questions. The early philosophers and
scientists built the early understanding of the world and the universe by
asking endless questions, which when answered continued to build the world of
knowledge that we now enjoy. Young
children, as soon as they learn to talk, build their understanding of the world
by asking endless questions. If you want
to know the power of questions, hang around a four year old. Questions are a key part of thinking. Indeed, questions are evidence of thinking.
It is instructive that a big part of the teachings of Jesus was in response
to questions, especially by the experts of the day, the Pharisees and the Sadducees.
The constant banter between Jesus and these groups demonstrated much of the understanding
of the day, and key lessons were built around this banter. It is also instructive
that the show stopper in this banter was a question that Jesus asked that
neither the Pharisees nor the Sadducees could answer.
I am constantly learning to ask the right questions in order to get
the right answers. The old adage still
holds – a stupid question gets a stupid answer.
I recently spend an hour with a business person who confessed that the
reason she had not been making progress in her business was that she was not
asking the right questions.
So – What questions are you asking?
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