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"Five Tips for Asking Better Questions"

This post was written by Penelope Trunk: "Now that I am committed to living on a farm which is sort of the anti-New York City, visiting New York City no longer brings up flashbacks to a really, really difficult lifestyle. Instead, New York fills my head with ideas.

The first one is a billboard I saw as soon as I got off the plane: A good question is the new answer.

That rings true to me. I have been writing about asking questions for a long time. It's the best way to have a meaningful conversation and it's the best way to rope in a mentor or look like a star performer. People spend more time thinking about answers than questions, but it's the questions that make you look smart.

1. Good questions require creative thinking...

2. When you're lost, look for questions, not answers...

3. Think of your career path as a question path...

4. Asking good questions takes work - that you have to do yourself...

5. Field other peoples' questions to get better at asking questions...

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Source: Brazen Careerist, 6 May 2010. © 2009 Penelope Trunk, reproduced with permission of the author. 

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on May 07, 2010 (boomark / email).