How can asking quality questions make you powerful?

I know what you’re thinking: Can questions have quality attached to them? Well, just like stupid questions exist, quality questions exist too. Knowing how to ask quality questions can introduce you to the most powerful weapon in the world—Godly knowledge. Questioning isn’t just about inquiry—it’s a transformative process. It’s how wisdom begins.

What makes it even more powerful is the fact that it leads us to all kinds of answers: the ones you want to know, the ones you don’t want to know, and the ones you already know.

We are born into this world with its views, and then we grow up being presented with pieces of evidence and different viewpoints. So, when we get exposed to all the information available for our consumption, our minds start to doubt. It starts to question what is right and wrong. Asking questions is the only way to clear up these doubts.

These newfound answers lead us to learn new information and understand that not everything we know is right and has to make sense to others and that what makes sense to the world does not have to make sense to us. It helps us organize our thinking around what we don’t know and need to absorb to develop our views.

Why did we stop asking questions?

I know most of us have been told and grew up in an environment where we were discouraged from asking questions. This discouragement comes at an early age. We, as children, were never rewarded for asking questions but only for giving correct answers. If we did not answer correctly, shame followed, and we got served with hot humiliation.

These reactions shattered the courage still building in our young years, and we decided to be less courageous and tone it down a bit. We grew up in an environment where asking too many questions was seen as a big problem. And who wanted to be a problem or be called a crisis? Right???

So we let our questions go by, and asking something became the last resort as we assumed that we were supposed to know everything, and if we did not, we were an idiot—an official dumbass who did not know certain things.

So, we slowly accepted that if we did not know anything or did not know the answer, It’s better to be quiet and find the answers on our own.

To hide that we do not know anything, we now live a dual life, one in the virtual world and the other in person. In virtual life, we come across as super curious and spend hours searching for information and asking questions online.

In real life, we are uncurious, avoid asking questions, and miss out on the most fun way to learn and share experiences and viewpoints on any subject. We wait for information to come to us rather than finding it by asking profound questions that have made us more ignorant of the details and information around us. It affects how we learn and absorb information provided or made available to us.

Why do we need to ask questions and how does it help us?

We must ask more questions to become more aware of the facts and information around us. Asking questions leads us to find the authenticity of the information and knowledge base we come across while searching for answers. It makes us go places, meet people, explore new content, and listen to other perspectives to better understand our subject of interest.

Once we introduce our minds to different views, the curiosity to know more and seek more makes us question more. This seeking makes us read new books, watch new content, and explore and learn more about other cultures, art, history, and values that help shape our exclusive opinions.

We learn that there is a solution for every problem and understand the difference between right and wrong as we become more informed with an enlightened worldview. Everything we know today started with us asking a question. I mean everything, and if you doubt what I just said, look around and ask yourself.

True, right???

That’s how powerful questioning is.

Be curious, stay curious, and start asking questions.

Love

G