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Questions First

4 April 2006

Ok, so my post yesterday did sound quite a lot like Mr Godin.

I admit it.

But I think we can all learn something from Seth, and it’s something very simple really. Something every child does, that most adults forget:

Ask questions.

About everything. Little ones. Big ones. “Why doesn’t it work that way?”. “Why not do it like this?”. That sort of thing.

The corollary to that is quite simple; once you’ve asked the question you then have to do one thing:

Think.

It’s amazing how many times people forget to think. Always a bit of a downfall, I find.