Why Is This a Question?: Everything About the Origins and Oddities of Language You Never Thought to Ask

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Books are perfect conversation starters. What and how often people read can tell a lot about their personality. Responding to simple 'why questions' often begin with 'because" followed by the reason. On the other hand, answers to more abstract 'why questions' may call for more complex thinking. Why is asking these questions, good?

Each of these can be broken down into a lot more detail, but if you’re just starting out, feeling overwhelmed, and need a place to start, this is for you! Step 1: Explore the Idea – What is the Point I’m Trying to Make? [Brainstorming Before Writing] Berger’s expanded mission is to ensure that our classrooms are fostering the essential skill of questioning so that questioning no longer falls off the educational cliff. A longtime business speaker, for the past six years Berger has also been traveling the world speaking about the importance of teaching children how to become better questioners, and in spring 2020 he published BEAUTIFUL QUESTIONS IN THE CLASSROOM (Corwin Press), aimed at educators everywhere. This chapter examines several paradoxes, including the Monty Hall Problem, Simpson's paradox, Berkson's paradox and Lord's paradox. The authors show how these paradoxes can be resolved using causal reasoning. Setting: How much worldbuilding should you do before you start writing? We’ll give you some things to consider so you can decide. In an amazing TED Talk by Ken Robinson (watched 31 million times), he speaks about how schools kill creativity. Schools rate kids on set criteria (sometimes measuring a fish on it’s ability to climb a tree) and frankly prepare them for a world that is long gone. When kids go to school the amount of questions they ask drops radically. Kids are taught to memorize lists, not think critically.

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Note from Joanna: You can view my free tutorial on why creative routine is so important for authors here.] So Many Questions In University, I took a linguistic course as an elective. As a young naive, overwhelmed student, who was relentless in her search to get in to her PhD of choice, I skimmed the course, without taking in any of the content, simply cramming before an exam. I often reflect on the breadth of knowledge I overlooked in that course. This book more than made up for it. And I gave it my whole attention. Some professionals such as litigators, journalists and even doctors, are taught to ask questions as part of their training. But few executives think about questioning as a skill that can be honed. That’s a missed opportunity. The Opportunity What do they want more than anything? This is your character’s goal—the thing they will spend the majority of the story working toward. If you want to get better answers, ask short and specific questions one at a time. Allowing them to finish their responses before giving follow-up questions will enable them to craft well-thought answers, hence better conversations. More Awesome Questions To Ask

If you can’t answer those questions yet, it’s worth spending a little more time thinking about character development before starting to write; ideally, you should know character motivation and goals before writing the story.

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Or do you like to start each book by inventing a new system, a new routine for a new neighbourhood?

I can't answer the questions for you. But I can ask you to use the power of inquiry to examine your life, to question your motivation, and to use questions for the greater good. What is your sentence?” This is what congresswoman Clare Booth asked John F. Kennedy in the beginning of his career. She believed that great people should be summarized (and remembered by) something that fits onto one sentence. One example would be “He raised four kids who became happy, healthy adults”. What would your sentence be? This chapter takes a historical approach to the question 'does smoking cause lung cancer?', focusing on the arguments made by Abraham Lilienfeld, Jacob Yerushalmy, Ronald Fisher and Jerome Cornfield. The authors explain that, though cigarette smoking was clearly correlated with lung cancer, some, such as Fisher and Yerushalmy, believed that the two variables were confounded and argued against the hypothesis that cigarettes caused the cancer. The authors then explain how causal reasoning (as developed in the rest of the book) can be used to argue that cigarettes do indeed cause cancer. A More Beautiful Question outlines a practical Why / What If / How system of inquiry that can guide you through the process of innovative questioning—helping you find imaginative, powerful answers to your own “beautiful questions.” The resolution: Who is your protagonist at the end of your story? How have they changed? What is their “new normal” like? Decide how you will tie up any loose ends and conclude your story.

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Deborah) Meier (a pioneer of the small schools movement) started with two particular ways of thinking she wanted to emphasize -- skepticism and empathy. "I believe you have to have an open-mindedness to the possibility that you're wrong, or that anything may be wrong," she said, "I've always been very concerned with democracy. If you can't imagine you could be wrong, what's the point of democracy? And if you can't imagine how or why others think differently, then how could you tolerate democracy?" We’re so used to asking the standard “What do you do for a living?” and “How old are you” questions that we almost forgot how deeply, unique questions could open up people.