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What is the question I should be asking?

David Kimbell
2 min readApr 14, 2021

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(You can never go wrong with that one, right there. Whatever is currently on your plate, there’s always a better question, if you think hard enough.)

Here are some suggestions:What do you want?

What are you pretending you don’t know?

What are you pretending you don’t need to know?

What do you not know, that you need to know?

What do you know, that you should not know?

Are you doing the right thing? Are you sure? How do you know?

What false assumptions are you desperately entertaining?

What imaginary world are you desperately trying to live in?

What would George Orwell think of you right now?

What School of Groupthink has hijacked your mind? Who highjacked it? Why did you give them permission?

Who have you allowed to make you a guinea pig for their experiment?

What are you going to know a year from now, that you will wish you’d thought more about right NOW?

What one thing can I do that might change things for me radically, NOW?

If your mind wasn’t currently filled with these particular anxious thoughts, what might you have to think about right now?

Don’t ask, Why my addiction? Ask, Why my pain? (nod to Dr Gabor Maté)

Why do I feel bad about myself? What’s happening to make me feel this way? Anything?

Have I given myself permission to SUCCEED even if everyone around me (including those closest to me) decide to FAIL? (nod to Alex Iglecia)

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David Kimbell
David Kimbell

Written by David Kimbell

Curiosity. Questions. Simplicity. Principles. Meaning. The Vital Few, not the Trivial Many. Be your own Chief Questions Officer.

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