Know how to ask the right questions?
You have an advantage in today’s Google economy.
Google can give us millions of results on any question you ask.
So, if you know how to ask the right questions, you’ll get your perfect answer from any corner of the world – from the collective human encyclopedia.
Now, just for a moment.
Think about this.
What have we learned in our education system?
The exact opposite.
You got questions, and you got rewards for answering the perfect one answer correctly.
For a simple question – what’s 6*9?
If we write 54 we were given perfect marks.
The answer is perfectly right.
But it’s not about the answer, but the way we have been trained to look at things.
Quite opposite, what if the question was –
What are the ways you can get 54?
Countless answers open up – 6*9, 9*6, 27*2, 50+4, 60-6,… I can go on and on.
Credit for the above analogy – Dr. Pavan Soni
Just think about it.
One question just closed your thinking loop.
The second one – it just made you creative to come up with multiple solutions – it opened up your thinking loop.
Every phase of life and every phase of generation needs different skill sets to thrive.
In older times, we had to remember all the stuff in our heads. It was essential.
Not anymore – a simple search gives us the most direct results in milliseconds.
It is great if you understand the core purpose of information or any tech – those are enablers.
Now we can focus on things to do with that information.
If you look at our education system, it has to evolve for the times.
I’ll be writing my way of looking at it sometime.
But all I want you to remember is to understand the purpose of information or any tech.
This is true for any rules, laws, or ideologies out there.
Those are all enablers to help us make better decisions and live better.
There is no essence in the literal meaning of those words and structure unless it enables us to achieve its purpose.
Asking the right questions was always a super skill.
And this privilege has become accessible to anyone at the tap of a finger now – information is democratized now.
Today’s system much more values the right questions than the perfect answer.
Doesn’t mean the old way is bad, it sure is one of the solutions. But we have better now.
Especially today when we drown in information on literally anything that we can think of.
So, ask the right questions to achieve the right purpose.