In school, the teacher gave us questions, and we had to do our best to come up with the answers.
Nassim Taleb says that in real life, it’s the opposite.
Other people give us answers, and we need to come up with the best corresponding questions.
A job offer.
A reason why a project succeeded or failed.
A game plan to save and invest our money.
Isn’t it crazy that we’re trained for 20 years to answer, but then most future success depends on our ability to ask good questions.
It’s making me 1) think twice about how I’d like to raise my future children: encouraging and praising their questions more than their answers, and 2) invest more in forming the right questions rather than simply accepting the answers I’m given.