"Think of this method as simply using questions to get people to think deeper about an issue or to find some novel solution within a problem."
Back in the olden times for me. I worked at an ad agency. One of the founders was brilliant to the point of being our hero. Kind and generous. When we had advisory panels of physicians he would always include nurses jut to keep the doc's on their toes.
He would say frequently, "It's not the answers but the questions that are important." I would see this in action during client meetings. Alan would listen to clients spewing opinions and just ask a question. The room would go silent. Everyone would realize that we never thought about that and it changes everything. Que the Law and Order Theme.
Alan was a voracious reader and told me that he discovered that reading Rilke
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
"Think of this method as simply using questions to get people to think deeper about an issue or to find some novel solution within a problem."
Back in the olden times for me. I worked at an ad agency. One of the founders was brilliant to the point of being our hero. Kind and generous. When we had advisory panels of physicians he would always include nurses jut to keep the doc's on their toes.
He would say frequently, "It's not the answers but the questions that are important." I would see this in action during client meetings. Alan would listen to clients spewing opinions and just ask a question. The room would go silent. Everyone would realize that we never thought about that and it changes everything. Que the Law and Order Theme.
Alan was a voracious reader and told me that he discovered that reading Rilke
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
If no one gives you a good enough answer to your question, you have to find your own....