VINJONES https://vinjones.com/ Mon, 15 Jun 2020 16:16:30 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 The Purpose of Asking Questions https://vinjones.com/the-purpose-of-asking-questions/ https://vinjones.com/the-purpose-of-asking-questions/#respond Mon, 15 Jun 2020 16:16:27 +0000 https://vinjones.com/?p=6606 What is the purpose of asking questions?What is your answer?  Stop right now and answer this question for yourself before you read on. Why do you ask questions?I have asked hundreds of people this question.  The answer is almost always the same: to learn.  And while this is not wrong, it isn’t complete, either.  If […]

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]]> https://vinjones.com/the-purpose-of-asking-questions/feed/ 0 The Unspoken Question https://vinjones.com/the-unspoken-question/ https://vinjones.com/the-unspoken-question/#respond Mon, 01 Jun 2020 16:08:07 +0000 https://vinjones.com/?p=6597 Read the following excerpts of a few famous speeches.John F. Kennedy: “In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility — I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us […]

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]]> https://vinjones.com/the-unspoken-question/feed/ 0 The New Symbol of Our Persecution https://vinjones.com/6591-2/ https://vinjones.com/6591-2/#respond Fri, 29 May 2020 17:09:11 +0000 https://vinjones.com/?p=6591 Please read the whole thing before commenting, lest you assume I am actually expressing an opinion.  Rather, this is a thought experiment. In the 1930s & 1940s the Nazi persecution was led, symbolically, by the swastika. During the Crusades, the Christian persecution was led, symbolically, by the cross.  In both instances, a group of people […]

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]]> https://vinjones.com/6591-2/feed/ 0 Challenging the Status Quo With Questions https://vinjones.com/challenging-the-status-quo-with-questions/ https://vinjones.com/challenging-the-status-quo-with-questions/#respond Thu, 28 May 2020 17:44:27 +0000 https://vinjones.com/?p=6586 When I was young – maybe about eight years old – my father asked me a question that jarred my little brain. He said, “We put a lot of expectations on the world we live in and take them for granted. What if things were different each day? What if, when you turned the water […]

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]]> https://vinjones.com/challenging-the-status-quo-with-questions/feed/ 0 Questions Without An Answer https://vinjones.com/questions-without-an-answer/ https://vinjones.com/questions-without-an-answer/#respond Wed, 27 May 2020 14:34:47 +0000 https://vinjones.com/?p=6578 Our life is full of questions each day.   What time are you getting home?   When will the project be completed?   Would you like a dipping sauce with your fries?  Should I go to bed now or read until I fall asleep?  Why am I stuck in this relationship?  What would it have been like had […]

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]]> https://vinjones.com/questions-without-an-answer/feed/ 0 What Questions Are We Not Asking? https://vinjones.com/what-questions-are-we-not-asking/ https://vinjones.com/what-questions-are-we-not-asking/#respond Wed, 20 May 2020 15:18:59 +0000 https://vinjones.com/?p=6573 At one point my wife attended a number of small group activities where the participants were a select group of women. This group was very picky about who they let join them.  Not all people wanted to or could be in this group because of the restrictions.  So the group stayed small and selective.  Yet […]

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]]> https://vinjones.com/what-questions-are-we-not-asking/feed/ 0 Don’t Ask a Question You Don’t Already Know the Answer To https://vinjones.com/dont-ask-a-question-you-dont-already-know-the-answer-to/ https://vinjones.com/dont-ask-a-question-you-dont-already-know-the-answer-to/#respond Tue, 19 May 2020 15:28:30 +0000 https://vinjones.com/?p=6570 I remember watching a TV show years ago about lawyers. I don’t remember what the show was or anything about it, except for one line.  It was a senior lawyer speaking to a junior lawyer and he said, “Don’t ask a question you don’t already know the answer to.”  And in the context of his […]

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]]> https://vinjones.com/dont-ask-a-question-you-dont-already-know-the-answer-to/feed/ 0 There is Never a Right Way to Ask A Poor Question https://vinjones.com/there-is-never-a-right-way-to-ask-a-poor-question/ https://vinjones.com/there-is-never-a-right-way-to-ask-a-poor-question/#respond Mon, 18 May 2020 16:53:32 +0000 https://vinjones.com/?p=6567 At one point in my career, I was hired as a consultant for a large organization that had a huge amount of bureaucracy and had decades of old tradition. It was apparent that most new employees were to fall in line. In fact, I even heard of the senior officers of the organization tell his team of […]

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]]> https://vinjones.com/there-is-never-a-right-way-to-ask-a-poor-question/feed/ 0 The Questions We Don’t Ask https://vinjones.com/the-questions-we-dont-ask/ https://vinjones.com/the-questions-we-dont-ask/#respond Mon, 11 May 2020 17:08:20 +0000 https://vinjones.com/?p=6563 I remember watching a TV show years ago about lawyers. I don’t remember what the show was or anything about it, except for one line. It was a senior lawyer speaking to a junior lawyer and he said, “Don’t ask a question you don’t already know the answer to.” And in the context of his […]

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]]> https://vinjones.com/the-questions-we-dont-ask/feed/ 0 Why are Quality Questions So Rarely Used? https://vinjones.com/why-are-quality-questions-so-rarely-used/ https://vinjones.com/why-are-quality-questions-so-rarely-used/#respond Thu, 07 May 2020 15:37:00 +0000 https://vinjones.com/?p=6560 If the questions we ask have such a huge influence on our lives, why don’t we ask great questions all the time? Wouldn’t it be worth the time and effort to ask great questions? I believe the answer to this last question is yes. But before we settle on that answer, maybe we should ask […]

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