Project Question-Templates

Fragments from imaginary dialogues

“I LOVE questions.

I want to master Questioning (The Art of Asking Questions).”

“What’s your approach?”

“I practice it constantly. I have a special notebook only for questions. 

Another thing I like to do is deconstruct questions. One outcome of this is the creation of question-templates [<link; medium length], which are a practical tool for generating questions. 

One of my latest projects is gathering all the question-templates in one place.”

“How do you organize them?”

“I have a document for each of the question-kernels:

How
What
When
Where
Which
Who
Why

Their structure looks like this (x, y, z are variables):

What x ?

What x now?
What [do you want to focus on] now?

What x next?
What [do you want to focus on] next?

What x y ?
What [beautiful opportunities] [are there around you]?
What [problem] [are you trying to solve]?
What [book] [do you want to implement next]?
…

What are x ?

What are [the answers]?

What are the fundamentals of x ?
What are the fundamentals of [Learning]?

What are the [superlative] x ?
What are the [most powerful] [resources you have]?
…

What can x ?

What can you x ?
What can you [add]?
What can you [subtract]?
What can you [play with]?

What can you x y ?
What can you [play with] [in this context]?
What can you [practice] [now]?
…

What do x ?

What do you want to x ?
What do you want to [feel]?

What do you want to x y ?
What do you want to [master] [in the next ten years]?
What do you want to [master] [in this lifetime]?
…

What does x ?

What does x y ?
What does [a quality rep] [look like]?
What does [a quality rep] [feel like]?
…

What if x ?

What if you eliminated x from y?
What if you eliminated [activity z] from [your life]?
…

What is x ?

What is [the answer]? (One Thing)

What is [essential]?
What is [exciting]?
What is [the next step]?

What is your x ?
What is your [compass]?

What is [superlative] x ?
What is the [most powerful] [resource you have]?
…

What makes x ?

What makes [you come alive]?

What makes x y?
What makes x [fun]?
What makes x [funny]?
…

What might x ?

What might [this look like from their perspective]?
…

This is but a very small glimpse of it.

As a mind-map it looks like this:

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