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In too many domains of our lives, we never gain enough expertise to question our opinions or discover what we don’t know.
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Uncertainty primes us to ask questions and absorb new ideas.
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Who you are should be a question of what you value, not what you believe. Values are your core principles in life – they might be excellence and generosity, freedom and fairness, or security and integrity.
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The ideal members of a challenge network are disagreeable, because they’re fearless about questioning the way things have always been done and holding us accountable for thinking again.
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By asking questions rather than thinking for the audience, we invite them to join us as a partner and think for themselves.
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Psychologists find that many of our beliefs are cultural truisms: widely shared, but rarely questioned. If we take a closer look at them, we often discover that they rest on shaky foundations.
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With so much emphasis placed on imparting knowledge and building confidence, many teachers don’t do enough to encourage students to question themselves and one another.
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When trust runs deep in a team, people might not feel the need to question their colleagues or double-check their own work.
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How do you know? It’s a question we need to ask more often, both of ourselves and of others. The power lies in its frankness.
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…mindsets aren’t enough to transform a culture. Although psychological safety erases the fear of challenging authority, it doesn’t necessarily motivate us to question authority in the first place.
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