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Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

To move forward in life, we typically focus on finding answers.

My guest say, are you that we should spend more time asking questions.

Name is Warren Berger. He's a self-described questionologist.

We author the book, The Book of Beautiful Questions, The Powerful Questions that will help you decide, create, connect, and lead.

We begin our conversation discussing why having an inquisitive mindset is more important than ever in this fast-changing, uncertain world of ours, but why people are afraid to ask questions.

Warren then argues that questions don't necessarily need to have answers to be useful and explains what he thinks makes a question a beautiful question.

Warren then talks us through the importance of asking questions when you're trying to make decisions, be creative, form relationships, and lead people while providing concrete examples of questions to ask yourself and others.

We need more effective at each domain. After the show is over, check out our show notes at aowm.is slash beautiful question.

And Warren joins me now via clearcast.io.

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Alright, Warren Berger. Welcome to the show.

Thank you, Brett. It's great to be here.

So you are a self-proclaimed questionologist. You've been spending a lot of time thinking and writing about what makes a good question, a good question.

And you make the case that to move forward in life in today's fast-changing world, we need to ask more questions, which is kind of counter-intuitive because we think if we want to move forward in life, we're looking for answers.

So how can questions, asking questions, improve all facets of our life, personal business, et cetera?

Yeah, I think of questioning as a mindset and a way of looking at the world around you, with sort of an open and curious mind.

And I think it's more important than ever these days to approach life that way, you know, that I'm open to learning.

I'm going to question the information that comes at me. I'm going to question the assumptions about why things are the way they are.

I'm just going to go through life with that kind of an attitude.

The reason I think it's more important than ever is because the world we're in right now is, first of all, you know, think about what's going on with the glut of information, right?

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