This is to Jocko podcast number 422 with echo Charles and me.

Jocko when like good evening echo good evening. So you've heard me talk about asking earnest questions

The purpose of doing that is to try and understand what someone else is thinking

without putting them into a defensive mind without making them suspicious without flaring up their ego, a bunch of things going on.

Generally speaking, asking Ernest's questions is an indirect approach of trying to understand other people's ideas.

It's an open-minded approach.

It's not like a scam.

It's not a little trick.

If you do it correctly correctly it shouldn't cause someone to become defensive in fact if you

do it correctly the opposite should happen good earnest questions that you ask other people should open up their mind, open up

their mentality to where they actually want to explain their viewpoint so you can better understand them.

That's what an earnest question should do.

Asking earnest questions is not easy.

Some people screw screwed up. If you aren't careful, your questions can become

leading questions. They can become accusatory questions.

They can even become blaming questions.

Why did you do that, right?

Yeah, yeah.

So I was thinking about the various approaches

that you utilize and trust me, I've tried to help a lot of people with this and one of the things that I thought about when I thought about questioning was

questions that are used in a particular environment and that is the environment of interrogation.

So in order to get better at asking questions,

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