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Self-Awareness | Personal Growth
Questions That Shape Your Destiny
Unlock your potential through powerful questions
Your questions shape your future. The right ones open doors; the powerful ones spark real change. But what makes a question truly powerful? Let’s find out!
The transformative power of questions
Imagine having the ability to transform your life, or someone else’s, simply by asking the right question. Sounds impossible? It’s not. The direction of your life is largely determined by the questions you ask and the answers you choose. If you look closely, you’ll find key questions have marked turning points in your life.
Every action, decision, and outcome is traceable to a question and how you answered it. To create the best possible future, all you need to do is ask and answer the right questions. The more powerful your questions, the greater your potential for meaningful change. As Merilee Adams said, “Change your questions, change your life!”
Asking the right questions is one of the most valuable skills you can develop. It shapes your thinking, influences your choices, and can dramatically impact the lives of those around you. The wisest individuals throughout history became wise by asking and answering the right questions. If you don’t take the time to ask them, how can you expect to grow?
“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.” — Claude Levi-Strauss
There is little doubt that the quality of your questions shapes the quality of your thoughts. Likewise, the quality of your thoughts determines the quality of your growth. Simply put the better and more powerful the question, the greater your insights and the more potential you create.
What exactly makes a question powerful? Let’s look at a simple way to understand and immediately use them in your life. We will start by contrasting low-power with more powerful questions.
Low-power questions
Low-power questions typically begin with where, which, when, who, do, will, or can and provide limited information. They tend to be closed-ended, eliciting short and often…
