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A carpenter entered the doctor's office. The receptionist asked him why he was there. I have shingles.

The carpenter replied. So the carpenter was brought into a room and a nurse was summoned. The nurse came in and asked, why are you here today? I have shingles was the answer. She took his blood pressure, his temperature, his height, weight, told him to get fully undressed and changed into that backless gown and wait for the doctor. When the doctor came in, the mostly naked carpenter now told him,

I have shingles.

Where?

The doctor asked.

By now, the carpenter was starting to lose his patients.

Where do you think?

Outside in my truck.

And so goes the problem about not asking good or enough questions.

Voltaire said, it is best to judge a man by his questions

rather than by his answers. So maybe you are not moving forward in your career or in your business

or in your marriage or fill in the blank. Maybe because you are not asking the right questions.

Maybe you need to become better at asking questions.

The best way to get smarter, to grow, and to improve is to ask questions, a lot of them.

When we ask questions, we open ourselves up to collecting more information, information that we

wouldn't necessarily get otherwise. That's largely because when we ask questions, if we do it right, we are admitting that we don't necessarily get otherwise. That's largely because when we ask questions,

if we do it right, we are admitting that we don't know and we are removing the bias that we

are plagued with and that default thinking that we normally go to. Let me give you two tricks

to asking better questions. You ready? Here's number one. Lead your questions with how.

For example, not will you be on time, but how likely is it that you will be on time?

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