Best Of: Asking a More Beautiful Question with Warren Berger

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, author Warren Berger joins us to talk about the power of leveraging questions to drive innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship.

HIGHLIGHTS

How asking questions drives innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship
The importance of letting our work be shaped by different perspectives
Why questioning matters and why we don’t appreciate it as much as we should
How questioning unintentionally gets trained out of us
Developing a capacity for and a habit of asking questions
The why, what if, and how framework for asking questions
How the Polaroid camera came into existence through a child’s question

An expert on design thinking and innovation, Warren Berger has studied hundreds of the world’s leading innovators, designers, education leaders, creative thinkers, and red-hot start-ups to analyze how they ask game-changing questions, solve problems, and create new possibilities. Warren believes that questioning leads to innovation, can help you be more successful in your career, and can spark change in our businesses and lives.

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0:00.0	So the one-if stage is where you really start to bring your own creativity, your
0:05.2	imagination, and your creative powers to bear on this issue through speculation and it can be what if questions can be wild I mean
0:16.8	they can just be you know what if we turn the whole thing upside down you know I
0:21.1	mean oftentimes the more wild they are, the better.
0:27.0	I'm Srenny Rao and this is the Unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window into the stories and
0:36.1	insights of the most innovative and creative minds who've started movements, built driving
0:40.4	businesses, written best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art.
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1:49.0	Warren, welcome to the Unmistakable Creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us.
1:51.0	Oh, it's great to be here. It is absolutely my pleasure to have you here. You know I came
1:55.8	across your work by way of one of our former guests and also via your book a more
2:00.6	beautiful question which I just finished reading and absolutely loved because I just felt there
2:05.6	were so many applicable things that could be implemented into lives and our businesses.
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