Questions
I’ve been asking questions for most of my professional life.
Here is a series of posts about how to use and choose questions, and what asking the right question will do for you.
It touches on the idea that different people use questions in different ways. It then considers using questions to control or bully; using them to analyse and investigate; using them to sell, manipulate emotion and to persuade and using them to uncover what is not being said. The comments on the final post include example of using questions to teach languages and in technical training.
It is my belief that questions truly are the answer.
Questions 2 - Whoever asks the questions has the power
Questions 3 - Kipling’s honest serving men
Questions 4 - What do Rudyard Kipling, Aristotle and Lewis Carrol have in common?
Questions 5 - How do sales people use questions?
Questions 6 - Using questions to persuade
Questions 7 - The NLP Meta Model - what’s that?
If you have any - er - questions, then post them in the comments below and I’ll get back to you.
March 27, 2007 at 6:55 am
Dear Aphra Behn,
Are you aware of the way the male biological clock works in terms of advancing paternal age being responsible for more and more spontaneous mutations in spermatagonia that in turn cause offspring to be born with or develop genetically based disorders? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/10/021018080014.htm
Thank you,
Leslie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternal_age
March 27, 2007 at 7:53 am
I was aware of that, actually, thank you Leslie.
I’m not entirely sure if its relevence to what I’ve written here, but I am sure it is something that it is useful for people to know.
Aphra.
January 29, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Yosef Campbell wrote: (in reference to Proteus)
“This wily god never discloses even to the skillful questioner the whole contets of his wisdom . He will reply only to the question put to him, and what he discloses will be great or trivial, according to the question asked.”
Taken from “Angels and Aliens” by Keith Thompson.
So, quetsions are th emost important thing in the world. We have to be open minded to aks not what we seek to corroborate based on our belief system, but that which will shed light on the subject.