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The Quality of Questions

Why most people are afraid to ask them...

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Feb 11, 2025
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Dear Unlearners,

Everyone's obsessed with finding answers these days.

How to be more productive.

How to make more money.

How to get more followers.

How to optimize everything.

How to get ahead.

Here's what nobody tells you: answers are cheap. Google has billions of them. ChatGPT can generate millions more. And most of them are just recycled solutions to yesterday's problems.

The rare skill? Asking better questions.

The quality of your life is directly proportional to the quality of questions you ask.

Think about that for a second.

Small questions keep you small:

"How do I get more customers?" versus "Who would actually miss me if I disappeared tomorrow?"

"How do I beat my competition?" versus "What if I'm playing the wrong game entirely?"

"How do I get people's attention?" versus "What truth am I afraid to tell?"

Here's the uncomfortable truth: asking questions makes you look threatening to others. People get defensive when you challenge their assumptions. They prefer comfortable lies over uncomfor…

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