Our brains are always self-organizing to help us answer the questions we ask. The more compelling the question, the more the with which the brain has to work. Throughout history, what often distinguished the great inventors, creators and discoverers were the types of questions they asked. Novel questions have a better chance of producing novel solutions.
Conversation Cafe is gearing up for Conversation Week, a week when everyone around the globe is invited to convene in small groups to consider together the most important questions in the world today. They have narrowed it down to the 50 they think are most important, and are asking for votes of the top 10 at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=vZIiOzEV1pL0LV_2f17vLcLQ_3d_3d.
Our life choices reflect the questions we are asking, often unconsciously. If we, and the state of our world, are walking expressions of the questions we hold both individually and collectively, what questions would produce the most life-giving, generative solutions and expressions? What questions would unfold the most positive changes?
What would your Top 10 questions be?
I love the question -- what questions should we be asking ourselves? This is a deeply provocative question, one that I'll be mulling over for a while. Thanks for stirring the pot with this, Michelle.
Tom
Posted by: Tom Goddard | February 24, 2008 at 08:10 AM