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I'm still not perfect in asking.
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Before I ask, I don't have what I am asking for, so even if I don't get it, I'm not worse off than in the beginning.
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This is an interesting post. I’m terribly curious and ask many, many questions. I have been told, “You ask too many questions,” all my life. (My toddler is the same, with questions pouring out of her mouth, and I often have to say, “Stop asking so many questions! Shh!”)
But if you don’t ask, you never receive. You never learn. You never open up opportunities. You sit, you stagnant, and you go nowhere.
What’s wrong with asking questions? Afraid they’ll say no? So what! So they say no, and you shrug and say, “Okay.” (Then you find some devious way to get the information you want or need.)
People often wonder how I achieve many of my goals. Simple. I ask. I put myself out there, and I know that a “no” is just a no. It’s not a criticism of me or my personality. It isn’t a reflection of failure. It doesn’t knock my self-esteem.
It’s just a no, people. And… what if it ends up being a yes?
Excellent post, Jarkko. I’ve really been learning the importance of asking over the past month or so, though I need to practice at it more.
I think my biggest successes have been asking Jon if he’d be interested in an article I wrote for Freelance Folder, and asking lots of great bloggers for a haiku. I never expected all of them to say yes!
@James: My son isn’t yet at the age where he starts asking questions but I’m already scared that might be limiting him too much by saying “don’t ask so much” or “don’t try all those things”… I hope I will be able to let him explore the world and use his curiosity the way I want to use mine.
I’m sure you’re doing a great job with yours – after all, having a curious dad is great asset when raising a curious kid.
@Joshua: I know the feeling – I get it every time I ask for something on the blogosphere. I think this environment is a great place for practicing our asking muscles: the people are friendlier than average and they usually gain something from helping you out – so I would assume that you have a better chance of getting a yes here than in your every day life… And then, equipped with that experience it’s easier to broaden your asking target.
I have no facts to support this idea so I’m eager to hear what you think! Does this idea sound true to you? Or is it just my imagination?
Thanks for this post! It’s a real eye-opener! I just realized that I must be the worst asker in the universe. I rarely ask for anything. Probably because I think I can cope with what I already have. And I think there are many people who think the same way so they never ask for anything either.
Maybe I should start asking more from now on. As Mr. Chartrand said, the worst that can happen is to receive a negative answer, but that’s all. :)
@Jarkko: I’m not sure if the blogosphere is actually friendlier overall, but I think the reputable parts of it do tend to be. And the fact that people in it are likely to benefit from saying yes helps a lot too.
Hi Jarkko. I would like to share my view on the “asking questions” issue and hope to get feedback on it, for I still haven’t learned how to go about satisfying my curiosity for “everything and anything”.
I recognize two types of “asking”; the first one is asking as in offering your-self/skills/experience, from which, of course, you have only to gain, and never lose, as you’ve realized yourself.
The second type, on the other hand, is asking for knowledge (if I can name it like that), as in “what happened in 1989″. This is where I struggle with myself. Mostly because of two reasons:
1. I realize that is so much easier to just ask somebody, but I feel uncomfortable in wasting other people’s time when I ask something without previously trying to find the answer on my own. And you ‘can’ find the answer to 90% of the questions by simply going to the library, googling, wiki-ing etc. It may take some time and research, but you’ll get your answer eventually.
2. An even bigger obstacle for posing that question for me is the terrifying possibility that even if I get the answer, either I will not understand it (and asking a ‘sub-question’ is a definite no-go), or even worse, will fail to learn from it!
Well, on the latter, I already have established the diagnosis: my fears can come true only in the case where either I am being ‘IQ challenged’ (which is an extremely sensitive issue for me) or I am not being focused on ‘digesting’ the answer, which is another “imperfection” of mine (I found myself nodding my head while reading “Focus and Flow For the Insanely Interested”, but I guess I’m not going anyway further than that anytime soon).
So, did you have in mind these two aspects of “asking” when writing the article, or am I just complicating things as always?
@Jetro: We sure are brothers ;)
But in fact, by reading the Aladdin Factor I realized one thing that changed the way I look at people: everyone is scared to ask (most of us at least), but by asking more, they learn and become more comfortable doing it.
@Joshua: That could be true… Maybe I just hang out with the nicest bloggers in the world.
@Dren: That’s a great question!
In my post I was thinking only about the first type of asking, which I guess I could then again divide into two parts:
1) Asking for wisdom: Asking people to share their life stories and things they have learned through them. This will give the asker a deeper insight on life, and let him/her hear stories that aren’t written in books. So it’s something you have to ask in order to find out the answer.
2) Asking for help: By this I mean something like asking someone to write a blog post for you, asking if you they want to buy your products, and so on…
The third kind of asking would then be what you present it your comment. I guess it’s sometimes hard to distinguish that from the first type, the line between a fact and a piece of wisdom isn’t always clear…
Just like you, I also struggle with this a bit. It depends a lot on the person whether I ask the question or not: some people enjoy asking quick questions like these, but many people find them a bit annoying. So, if the person is really busy, I’ll just find out the answer myself.
But I don’t know if this is the best way to handle this issue. What do you think? Anyone? :)
‘Asking for wisdom’ – very true! Probably it is one of those questions that no book can really give the answer you are looking for, specially because there are so many ‘wisdoms’ as there are people that walked on this planet.
So I believe that this is the case where we have a win-win situation (that is if you choose to pose the question). You win because you want to hear the answer, and the other party – well I know no person that wouldn’t be happy to share his/her wisdom and ‘lessons learned in life’.
Ah, this made me remember my grandma and all the stories she shared with me… :)
Hm, I missed a ton of great discussion. Where’s your “Subscribe to Comments” option, Jarkko?
Hey James, thanks for the reminder! I’m off to install the subscribe to comments plugin right away :)
…15 minutes later: Done. Feel free to subscribe to comments!
Hei Jarkko! This is almost the first time I read your blog. Pity that I know your son better than you!
Science is all about asking questions.
(At least at our department) professors are those who ask the questions. Students are those who answer them. And then the professors get their names to good articles (written by the students) to famous journals.
It has something in common with blogging then, when some people revise the articles and give comments to them. And that’s how we get more & better knowledge.
Nice blog. And oh, you’re famous! ;)
-Lala, “the mother of Oskari”
Hi Lala! Nice to hear from you also through this forum :)
That’s a good point – but it brings up the question if there would be something the students could ask from the professors. What do you think?
The professors do know a lot of things and it’s always worth asking them!
I think the reason to that is that they have been insanely interested in what they are doing and have asked many many questions themselves.
That’s funny, professors back home want to know only what students remember from the books they have written… or I just happened to be in a very bad environment.
I think a lot depends on the nature of your question. And the nature of the answer you are seeking. How much effort/money/time/whatever it takes for the questioned to reply, or how much of these he already invested to find his own answers.
Obviously, you cannot receive “No” to an open-ended question…
Do you ask questions from yourself?