20th century business and education distorted most people’s confidence with standing comfortably in healthy questions. It unfortunately reduced most interactivity between people to performance- and control-based architectures. A century of students being conditioned on rewards for knowing answers to pre-structured questions rather than valued and encouraged to question, wonder, learn, and discover emergently set in.

What is interesting about this is the scientific method is predicated on question and inquiry. The business of research at its most fundamental level is the business of not knowing. It is instead an exercise in hypothesizing without attachment an idea and then going about to disprove that idea. Science has always been structured on the rigor of holding the polarities of knowing and not knowing simultaneously. A good researcher is always only an instrument or channel through which data comes.

The path into this future demands vulnerability and security to stand confidently in stellar questions that will then provoke new spaces from which to think, be, want, and do. Without worthy inquiry, you risk too much. You fall asleep. You don't operate from the place of agitator, investigator, or innovator.