330 - A More Beautiful Question - Warren Berger (rebroadcast)

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🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Warren Berger has made a career out of classifying, categorizing, and making sense of the many varieties of questions that we ask and in this episode he explains how we can ask more beautiful questions that can lead to all manner of better outcomes.

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0:36.6	Everybody. And the cooling of a happy they went fire. Welcome to the You Are Not So
0:43.9	Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast, episode
0:47.3	3.30
0:49.2	So, My name is David McRaney. This is the You Are Not So Smart podcast on this program, we often explore intellectual humility, media
1:13.3	literacy, and critical thinking. And asking questions is a critical aspect of critical thinking.
1:23.4	And this is an episode about asking questions. So, I'd like to ask you a question.
1:31.1	Why is the sky blue?
1:41.8	Do you know the answer to that question?
1:44.8	Do you know why the sky is blue?
1:48.1	You may have learned the answer in school,
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