How to ask beautiful questions
ChangingMinds.org has a great, short essay on How to ask beautiful questions.
And begins by pointing at the common one-down practice.
…Often many people ask tough questions mainly to satisfy their ego of making others uncomfortable, cover up their lack of knowledge, or to impress others. Most discussions and arguments you observe are all about how someone outsmarted someone else by firing a smart question. Watching someone squirm gives a self congratulatory sadistic pleasure to many people like, “Hah, you should have seen that bozo’s face when I asked him that tricky question.”…
And then discusses the alternative.
…However, a beautiful question can be described in many ways. Here are a few ways to learn how to ask beautiful questions….
3. Beautiful questions create pleasantness and collaboration. It removes fear and extracts right answers even if the answer is bad news. Successful managers know how to get the right answers from employees by not being intimidating in their approach. Their objective is to solve an issue or a problem, and not get a mischievous pleasure by making people uncomfortable. Beautiful questions help you achieve that….
And closes with a great quote by Dorothy Nevill. Check it out.
