Questions enables us to explore the uncertainty !!
Finding answers is not the purpose of great questions - the search is implicit on travel.
Your brain, just like everyone, is lazy by default. It likes to ask suboptimal questions - your brain wants an easy answer, not highlighting successful solutions.
The lazy questions that are trying to solve are causing big problems. By asking passive questions, we recall clearly: the key does not lie in the answer, but in the question itself.
When the answer is self-evident, then with whom does the question begin?
Asking a question is an art - it is about opening the possibilities instead of closing the loop with a correct answer.
Why being right or wrong is laziness ??
We are not taught to ask questions, but to answer them.
Do you want to fill a job with the right candidate? Do you want to avoid paying the wrong price? Are you worried about finding the right design for your new website?
Our education caters the lazy mentality - it forces us to see the world in the right or wrong. This is the same at work. Most managers do not care less about questions - they expect you to find the right answers.
We have been raised to think in binary words - yes-no, right-wrong, black-white, collaborative-competitive, positive-negative. This dualistic approach is limited to how we see the world - instead of promoting an educational journey, it forces us to choose a destination.
Finding new paths and solutions requires unwanted waters to navigate. Learning is inventing new routes - you do not know whether you will enter indies or in the US or not.
Interesting questions raise more questions - lazy questions encourage laziness.
Question replacement is a time saver, but the lazy method that we use to protect mental energy. Nobel prize winner and psychologist Daniel Kannan explains in this MIT Sloan piece: "When faced with a difficult question, we often give an easy answer, keeping in mind the replacement."
This cognitive move is why we keep irrational decisions. Consider the following examples from Kannaman's book Thinking, Fast and Slow.