When You Have an Expert on Tap, Make The Most of Tt… ASK QUESTIONS!
Next time you spend some time with a child, especially a small one, see if you can hazard a guess at how many questions he/she asks in the space of even a few minutes. Of course after the first five “But why’s…?” you might begin to feel less enchanted with their company than you were at first.
But contemplate for a moment. Children have SO much to learn; they’re starting from scratch after all. The simplest of tasks is a learned skill and they are surrounded by a wild world they understand very little about. The only way their sensible little minds tell them they will understand it and survive, is to LEARN about it and the only way to LEARN is to listen to the answers they get to zillions of QUESTIONS!
And so what happens from the moment they ask their first question? They progress at a staggering pace, that’s what! If any besotted parent had the time to document all of the things their child learned to do in the space of a year as they grow, the resulting volumes would fill a library, probably a state library!
But something tends to happen when we become “all grown up”. We stop asking all the questions. Given that a child instinctively knows that in order to progress and survive they must ask questions – and lots of them, would you expect that as adults we would continue to thrive by doing the same thing? It seems not.
Why not? Well it could be pride, embarrassment, laziness or all three. But while its interesting to speculate about the reasons we might have for being less curious than we were when we hit our steepest learning curve as children, it’s more important that we remember what a great learning tool asking questions was – and start asking them again!
Do you have TIME to be complacent? I know I don’t! In last week’s Nudge I asked you to consider the following questions if you’re really serious about living life on YOUR terms?
How URGENTLY do YOU want autonomy?
How much time are you willing to commit; how much money are you
prepared to invest in your journey?
And the scary question; How much TIME DO YOU HAVE LEFT in which to achieve it?
If you ARE really serious, surely the opportunity to grill people who are authorities on the very things you NEED to know, some of them outstandingly successful and autonomous entrepreneurs, is something you would jump at and grab with both hands!
I anticipate LOTS of questions being submitted for future Conference Calls. Make the most of a golden opportunity; get them to spill the beans and fast track your success!
Best regards
Mal
