Amount of Questions Will Grow, They Won’t Reduce

Over the past few months I have been working on a extensive research project called the “Deep Dive”. It’s a challenging project where pairs rigorously analyse a problem that’s plaguing Lima. We spend months researching to understand the in’s and out’s of one problem.

I personally looked at the topic of recycling at our school, FDR. We found lots of interesting facts including: The average FDR student, the people at the post prestigious school in Lima, didn’t place the item in the correct bin 50% of the time. We found out that there was a significant lack of communication between all people involved in the recycling process. We found that there was a lack of trust on the recycling system. Yet all of these findings that lead us forward in the project only lead to more questions about those results. We would begin to ask ourselves: What is the most effective way to get a community to recycle correctly and more often? Why doesn’t the information aline with itself? How can we make sure that everyone in the recycling process stays on the loop?

This pattern of more questions than answers continued until the project was over.

I thought about what I could have done to fully understand the problem. I thought about the professionals that did know absolutely everything about the project they worked on. And then it hit me. No one knows absolutely everything about anything. It goes back to when people say “There is always a way to improve”. It’s essentially the same thing as saying, “you will never be perfect”. Think about it. If you always end up with more questions, then you never know the entire picture.

It’s not just me. This can be applied to the world of science. Let’s be a little more specific and look into the understanding of the human body. Every year there are outstanding discoveries. We have been analysing the human body since the beginning of the human being (Around 200,000 years). We are still finding outstanding facts and we will continue to do so.

Questions lead to more questions than answers. This puts us in a hoax where one will never find out all the answers that one wants answered. At first I felt frustrated with this fact, but ask yourself the following: How boring would life be if one knew the answers from the start? I don't think we’ll ever find the answer to everything because it would give humans no purpose. Curiosity is one of the major drives for humanity. Uncertainty comes with it, but it’s what allows us humans to grow infinitely. I believe this is one of the beauties of being human.