Otherwise, people won’t want to tell you anything. If you are genuinely curious, you need to stick around to hear the answer, and pay attention instead of looking at your phone. If you want to get someone talking, be a little more specific to make it easier for them to respond: What was the weirdest thing that happened at school this week? How did your talk with Alex go? How are you feeling after your procedure?
If you are curious, ask loose open ended questions: Tell me about black holes? What happened next? What was that like? (Not recommended.) Or you can try this.Īre you curious or do you want to know something specific? You can practice law for 30 years and get pretty good at asking questions.
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We need to learn how to ask really good questions, then how to evaluate the results we get for relevance, credibility, and importance. Instead of learning what to remember, we need to learn how to think. Memorizing the periodic table is kind of silly. We really don’t have to remember or know information. Like reality shows, overexposed photos of ugly dresses, and tattoos of unicorns in compromising positions. We have most of the knowledge of the Universe in our pocket, along with a whole lot of things we may never understand. Lawyers use leading questions to get people to say things they would avoid saying if given the chance: Isn’t it true that you ate the last Thin Mint? Then you opened the shortbread, didn’t you? And now the cookies are all gone, aren’t they? And I asked you to save me some, right? We need to learn how to ask really good questions, then how to evaluate the results we get for relevance, credibility, and importance.” - Heather Bussing “Instead of learning what to remember, we need to learn how to think.
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