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Asking Better Questions
We often jump to answers, but are questions a better route to reaching our next milestone?
Graham Peelle
January 20, 2025
Intro
You’ve got answers, but do you have questions
Are you asking questions? Are you asking the right questions? Or jumping to the quickest answer? When we do ask questions, we often ask the wrong questions, or on the surface with no level of curiosity or depth. How do we change that? In some ways we have to retrain ourselves. In life, we’re conditioned to think we should have answers, not questions. Know stuff, be right, on exams, guess right, gut feel…
Actually, we need to admit we don’t have answers to it all, and ask a lot more questions. Get curious. Investigate and understand. We ask the initial question, and continue to ask why, how, what, who, when, and what questions about what moves the needle in the business, in people, and in this world. We get ultra curious about everything with people, how things work, and what makes the world connect. We look for and make the connections others don’t—we’re more aware, observant, and dig deeper than those looking on the surface level.
The Story
Ask everyone about their aspirations, or at least ask about what they are about
What do you do in your free time or when you choose what to do?
What do you like as preferences?
How do you operate?
What’s important to you?
What is your focus?
How you like to communicate?
Who inspires you?
Who do you look up to?
How do you approach solving problems?
How do see luck and opportunities?
Next level- things like:
Tell me about your vision for this firm.
If someone succeeded you today or bought your business, what changes would they make with your business?
What are things you should be doing that you aren’t prioritizing?
What are we actually trying to achieve?
What work and people fills our energy and what drains us?
Does the amount of attention I am giving this, match its true importance?
Am I happy with the direction of where this is going?
How do I create an environment that will naturally bring about my natural change?
What is our advantage?
Does our action reflect our priorities?
Do we have a vision that people know and understand, that guides our path forward as the North Star?
Do we have a vision that acts like a compass, showing us the general direction for our journey, or does it get unclear?
Who are we neglecting in our relationships?
What resources are we leaving on the table?
Some of these questions are taken from the Tim Ferriss pod, with James Clear.
“You don’t rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems.”
—James Clear
Questions drive many of the right answers or lead us to the right resources, people, thought tracks for those answers, and they make us a better person. Questions help us develop the person we want to become, not stay in a box we are already operating in.
Closing
Are you asking enough of the right questions?
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About the Author, Graham Peelle
