There’s immense power in asking the right questions.
Asking the right questions is often more advantageous than having the answer to the question asked.
Asking the right questions is crucial as it facilitates the discovery of appropriate answers, demonstrates progress, and creates meaningful momentum, regardless of the actual answers obtained.
I shot this short video on the power of asking the right questions. Check it out.
Asking the right questions demonstrates the power of framing, as it allows for a different interpretation and digestion of information. Even reframing the same question can have a significant impact. For example, “How do I compete with ChatGPT or other AIs?” vs. “How can I leverage AI to automate tasks I don’t want to do?”
In my experience, when asking someone what they want, often their response revolves around what they don’t want. However, reframing the obstacle as the path forward makes it easier to uncover the “hidden” opportunity.
You have control over the meaning you assign to things and the emotions they evoke in you. These distinctions are what separate feeling “sad” vs. “happy” – or “feeling like a victim” vs. “feeling in control of your destiny”. The power to control your perception determines whether life happens “to you” or “for you”.
When faced with a problem, a mindset of “it can’t be done” can be limiting. For better results, reframe that "problem" as a "challenge" that can be done – just not in the way it’s currently being approached.
The most important advances in society were impossible until they weren’t. For example, imagine telling someone in the Middle Ages that you could communicate with people around the globe (in real-time) while simultaneously seeing their faces and sharing documents. They’d try you as a witch faster than you could say, “Zoom!”
In the technology industry, the term “Moonshot” refers to a bold and groundbreaking project that was once considered impossible (like landing on the moon).
Success is often a function of using Moonshots to set direction, asking the right questions, being willing to see things differently, and finding a way to move in the right direction while gaining capabilities and confidence. As long as you are doing those things, the trick is to keep going until you get there. The result is inevitable if you do those things and don’t give up.
Onwards!
