Unlock Your Question Mindset to Think Clearly and Navigate Uncertainty

Course details

In this course, philosopher Pia Lauritzen explains how to unlock a question mindset. Pia shows you how to develop strategies to intentionally tap into your capacity to ask valuable questions, move past fears that keep you from asking questions, recognize key outcomes from asking questions, and explore motivations for asking questions to more effectively reach shared outcomes. Learn strategies to read between the lines in work situations to ask more relevant questions, identify the questions that aren't being asked, and recognize the essential needs of colleagues and customers to ask more strategic questions. Finally, discover how to embrace uncertainty with questions, recognize how to move past "what" and "how" questions to get at more diverse ways of thinking, and how to navigate essential human questions when using AI tools.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - You don't need to know best
02 - Discover your question mindset
03 - Take time to hear yourself think

1. Unlock the Power of Questions

04 - Trust your question mindset
05 - Activate the magical question triangle
06 - Face the fear of asking questions
07 - Recognize the power dynamics of questions
08 - Identify your motivation before you ask

2. Ask Questions to Think Clearly

09 - ASK like a philosopher
10 - Read between the lines to ask more relevant questions
11 - Identify the shadow questions no one is asking
12 - Use questions to practice long-term thinking

3. Ask Questions to Navigate Uncertainty

13 - Embrace the five shades of uncertainty
14 - Avoid the what-how bias to enhance diverse thinking
15 - Use questions to empower shared responsibility

4. Ask Questions to Stay Human in the AI Age

16 - Ask what AI wants from you

Conclusion

17 - Make space for magical moments