166. How to Ask Good Questions | THUNK 

Whenever I feel embarrassed to ask a question in lecture / office hours, I always try to remember the proverb: “He who asks a questions is a fool for five minutes, he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.”

maybe implied, but another good thing to do is to ask yourself why you are asking the question. that'll inform you whether it's adversarial, cooperative, if it needs a succinct answer, if you'd be better off to find the answer yourself, etcetera.

open ended questions are my favorite. As an Early Childhood Educator, I use open ended questioning as one of my tools to help children, develop ideas, problem solve and logically address issues and problems, it is an extremely strong tool useful in a multitude of situations. It allows children to develop their own ideas and use their own agency to solve problems without handing them answers or dictating ideas and attitudes, insomuch as a large portion of my conversation includes them and a few well placed questions can lead to amazing explorations and discoveries. for example The other day as a few children were playing/exploring some clay using clay shaping tools and their own ingenuity and creativity one of the children (4 yo) noticed that the clay on her hand was a different colour in spots and pointed it out to me. if I had provided the answer (dry clay is different colour to wet) the conversation would have ended, instead I answered with, "I'm not sure, I wonder why it does that?, I wonder if any of our friends have any ideas?" this led to an exploration that took about 20 minutes and 6 children, debating and experimenting until we came up with our answer (the sun and the air take the water away) all because of an open ended question.

If you understand the reasonable scope of a question then you understand basic metaphysics: tiny,cc/ontology Every "thing" is a pattern with a purpose and the resolution of the purpose determines the resolution of the pattern. The same applies to questions/answers. Every question has a purpose of a particular scale etc.

What makes a good question: 1) Simple to understand 2) Clear and concise 3) doesn't involve necessary background 4) Makes the answer think about the answer 5) Leads to other questions

have you ever thought about why we ask ourselves questions? it seems a bit redundant. if the information is already in my head, why do i have ask myself the question? i often do this when solving math/physics problems. this happens even when the problem is easy and can be done in my head. for example, if don’t literally ask myself “what is the integral of 5x?” the answer won’t just pop into my head. i have to ask the question in order for my brain to pluck out the answer. thoughts? is it just me?

Start out asking about Nazzy punching, and build up a rapport before moving on to more sensitive questions like ‘what have you been reading’. Got it.

This video showed me a blind spot I have. I normally use questions for exploring an idea in a vacuum. I would turn this skill on my self. Why am I doing X? Why am I feeling X? Again had a sandbox approach. The real thing questions can explore its the web of life and the web of minds around us. Taking the art of question asking and bring it into the real mess tangled world.

I really thought this video would be about how to apply the Socratic Method in day to day applications but it was much more. But maybe this is the problem, 'assuming' things before getting the full picture, it tends to make us expect wrong things, makes us more prone to make mistakes. Making the 'How to ask good questions' a casualty of the situation because of our own ignorance.

1. Practice asking questions (esp. in out of comfort zone situations, e.g. audience) 2. Indicate that you are one of them, and asking in their interest. 3. Ask questions that all participants can learn from, contribute to and enjoy. ... make it aShortAP, if longer repeat at the end, say what kind of answer you want (e.g. short, experience), ...

An interesting dimension on the topic is the XY problem, which I run into all the time with software development: Someome thinks they need to know how to know X, so they ask a broad but concise (good) question, or a very specific question, about how to do X. However, they unknowingly actually need to know how to do Y. How this usually turns out is that X doesn't work, leading the asker down a rabbit hole. Or, perhaps because X is a really weird thing to want to do, the question sort of requires feedback from potential responders about why, hopefully leading to an answer to Y. Though that part sort of leans into your point about questions with assumptions, though it comes from a place from not knowing what one does not know. Hard to work around that, except to step back and ask more broad questions. Anyway, I don't know of a better way to ask questions than how you phrased it: get more broad, about what fundamentally you're actually trying to learn, and then be concise.

I think a good question depends on the reason for asking, the person who receives it, and the timing. There can't be a clear answer... the more wise a person is, the more he/she will be lead by intelligence ,intuition , and instinct.

great video, as always, asking the right questions

Hi, Josh. I missed your videos.

A question that I find holds back humanities understanding in various aspects is misplacing the question of why as to interpret patterns as logic instead of the realization that logic identifies patterns. I find it used frequently in the science community on the topic of religion. I believe it is probably the cause of religion as well. I suppose it is a common side effect of mirror neurons. Instead of asking why when not on the topic of reason, please use how. Thanks and you are welcome.

Sometimes I wish I could escape from fuzzy questions...

Playlist is missing videos from 161 to 165 ;(

Can the plane take off though?

The best questions are the ones I don't have to answer!

as my bro rene says you gotta doubt

Over all from my view this is a very good video. There is only a few things said in this video I do differently when asking question. The links that Josh left I only looked at one. The Surprising Power of Questions from Harvard Business Review. HBR is one of my go to places to understand interacting with people. Throughout the article at HBR emotional intelligence is present. Our rational mind and our emotional mind need to be engaged when asking questions. That way people have a chance of feeling they are heard.

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You are approaching this problem from the wrong side. You should ask yourself how you could better understand the questions others are asking you. It is often very easy to see the flaws in others, when it is often you who totally sucks at harvesting their potential.