{"id":1030,"date":"2011-08-08T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2011-08-08T07:24:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T06:24:35","slug":"questions-are-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/questions-are-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions are the answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our work \u2013 and lives \u2013 we find that the questions we focus on are usually more useful than the abundance of easy answers.\u00a0 Taking time to think through\u00a0to the right question can be very useful \u2013 and even fun!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Working to a short, straightforward and significant question takes some effort.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Often a \u201chow\u201d question might be more useful as a \u201cwhy\u201d or a \u201cwhat\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For example\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do we need to organise this project over the next 90 days to increase its value\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>is quite different\u00a0to<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat would it take to increase the value of this project over the next quarter\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See here for a bit more on our <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/questionfanning\/index.shtml#SlideFrame_1\">Question Fanning <\/a>method.\u00a0 This is taught on our Brilliant Thinking Made Easy course. It helps get the scope of a question right (both the subject and scale of inquiry)<\/p>\n<p>For example, \u2018project\u2019, \u2018value\u2019 and \u201990 days\u2019 may not be useful to focus on!<\/p>\n<p>We do believe that as humans we are drawn in the direction of the questions we ask.\u00a0 We see this in science, business and in personal pursuits of happiness.<\/p>\n<p>And a few quotes that pick up the point:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlways the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question\u201d \u2013 e e cummings<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked\u201d \u2013 Voltaire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our work \u2013 and lives \u2013 we find that the questions we focus on are usually more useful than the abundance of easy answers.\u00a0 Taking time to think through\u00a0to the right question can be very useful \u2013 and even fun!\u00a0 Working to a short, straightforward and significant question takes some effort.\u00a0 Often a \u201chow\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[128],"tags":[29,69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}