questions

Questions are powerful. They can unlock new opportunities or allow digging deeper onto a subject.
They allow you to understand a problem deeper.

The problem with questions is that we don’t make them. We make assumptions, we suppose how things work.
We don’t make questions to avoid looking stupid, when, in fact, they could make us smarter.
Yes, there are dumb questions, but who cares? We don’t know if a question will actually be dumb until we ask it.

Also, even the most dumb question can be a gateway to understand a problem better.
I always refer to the “Yellow pen example”.
Say one friend has a yellow pen, and you start with a terrible, dumb question: “What is that?”
“It’s a yellow pen, can’t you see it?”

Well, even if the question was dumb, not very specific, you can still move forward and ask “Oh nice, and how does it work? What kind of ink it uses? Can it be pinned onto paper? Is it refillable?”
These are a few questions you can ask, and we’re just starting.

The thing is, the more questions you ask, the more questions you’ll have in mind.
That’s why questions are beautiful because they’re a fountain of ideas.