How to Ask Good Questions

You ask questions to get answers.

You ask the right questions to get the answers you’re looking for.

• Vague questions don’t help you

• Asking a question based on someone else won’t help you

• Asking someone who isn’t an authority won’t help you

Before I get into things let me just preface by saying a really important thing.

All of the things I just bullet pointed are COMPLETELY WRONG if you want to make friends and have good conversations.

Cheat sheet on being everyone’s favourite person to talk to.

• Let them talk as much as possible.

• Ask them vague questions.

• Do further prompting in the convo.

I just taught everyone social skills!

This is just a takeaway I want you guys to have.

I absolutely love talking to people about science.

I just wish people came to me with better questions.

I also wish people didn’t ask me what I think about other people’s opinions. i don’t know the full context or why they think the way they do.

Detach questions from people and focus on it as an idea.

Everyone has at least one good take or new perspective to learn.

This is learning.

From now on bad questions will be met with a block 👿 

Your Hypertrophy Hero,
Fletcher