Ask Stellar Questions

20th century business and education distorted most people’s confidence with standing comfortably in healthy questions. It reduced most interactivity to performance and control-based architectures. A century of students being conditioned on rewards for knowing answers to pre-structured questions rather than being valued on the questions they ask, the wonder they express, an eagerness for learning, or the ability to discover emergently has wrought some damage.

What is interesting is that the scientific method is predicated on question and inquiry. The business of research at its most fundamental level is the business of not knowing. A good researcher is always only an instrument through which data comes, hypothesising without attachment. And then going about rigorously to disprove an idea. Science has always been structured on holding the polarities of knowing and not knowing simultaneously.

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