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How does our ability to question separate us from primates?

"Unlike other primates, we humans are designed so that the young look to the old for cultural information." Humans will use some form of questioning to try to gain information. Humans have awareness of what they don't know

Why is "knowing" becoming less important?

Because knowing is easily accessible and it is everywhere throughout the world. Questioning + action = innovation

How are these important and how are these used? How are each different?

First why then what if then how Why is something the way it is? -Starts the process What if it can be another way? -Generates ideas How can I make it that way? -Action & Solutions

Why is it important to make questions personal?

If the question is personal, the questioner will become more passionate to seek out the answer. A personal question leads to action and solutions to the problem.

What is the definition of a "beautiful question"?

Is an ambitious yet actionable question that can begin to shift the way we perceive or think about something - and that might serve as a catalyst to bring about change

What are the characteristics of questioning? Is it instinctive or learned, etc.?

Part of it may be that we see questioning as something so fundamental and instinctive that we don't need to think about it

How does questioning affect leaders in the marketplace?

Questioning can make leaders more adaptable to change. It can help them plan for the future of their business.

What is the link between questioning and innovation?

Questioning creates ideas

How are questions different than answers? Why are questions more valuable?

Questions seek the unknown where answers are already what is known. Questions are more valuable because "known answers are everywhere and easily accessible" and "knowledge is a commodity." Questions have value because it is about "what you can do with that knowledge, in pursuit of a query."

How do questions impact creative thinking?

The kind of Why, What If, and How questions tend to encourage creative thinking more than closed yes or no questions.

What is Ito's theory on lifelong adaptation?

When the world moved at a slower pace and things weren't quite so complex, we spent the early part of life learning mode. Then once you became an adult you figured out what your job was and you repeated that same thing over and over again for the rest of your life. Now a days, because of constant change and increased complexity, that rinse-and repeat approach in adult life no longer works as well. In a time when so much of what we know is subject to revision of obsolescence, the comfortable expert must go back to being a restless learner

What are the three types of open questions?

Why, what if, and how questions