The world has many good answers, just waiting for a good question

Have you ever had this experience? No matter what you ask AI, it can immediately talk about it. Once, I even accidentally sent a comma to ChatGPT, and it was able to reply to me - and it was very reasonable.

At that moment I realized: the world is not short of answers, but short of good questions.

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               Asking questions is the key to open the world

There is more and more information, and answers are coming faster and faster, but our brains are getting more and more confused. Why? It's not because there is too little information, but because you are not asking the right questions.

Ask AI the same question:

“How to improve learning efficiency?” 

You'll get a bunch of cliché advice that's big, empty, and general.

When you ask:

"I only have 2 hours of free time every day. How can I plan my study schedule to pass the PMP exam within 3 months?" 

You get a structured, high-value solution.

You see, the difference is not in the AI, but in the way you ask the question.

Sometimes I watch some live broadcasts, some about how AI is implemented in enterprises, some about how to build an enterprise-level knowledge base, some about business decision-making, some about psychology, and some about children's learning. Some people ask, "How can I use AI in my company?"

The host or guest can only answer, open DeepSeek and enter your question. But obviously, this is not the answer the person asking the question wants.

As we learn, work, and collaborate with AI, a truly powerful question often meets three criteria:

1.  Specific

The clearer and more specific the question, the easier it is to elicit accurate and useful responses.

2.  Answerable

The question itself is not an unsolvable philosophical inquiry, but a task that can be acted upon and deduced.

3.  Goal-oriented

Asking questions is not for the sake of asking, but to get closer to the goal: solving problems, understanding principles, completing tasks, and inspiring thinking.

These three points are the golden rules I use to examine whether every question I ask is "valuable". This applies not only to collaboration with AI, but also with people.

I recommend everyone to read Neil Brown's "Learn to Ask Questions", it can really help you change the way you ask questions from the root.

The ability to ask questions is the underlying ability that allows you to go further .

When we were writing essays in junior high school, our teachers always said: "Have lofty ideas and clear thoughts." In fact, we should have learned at that time that good questions are the key to understanding and expression.

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                   So how do we practice asking questions?

Starting tomorrow, I will write a few short articles to take you into the " Questioning Training Camp ":

What kind of questions can lead to the golden answer of AI?

How to quickly understand a new field by asking questions?

How can critical questioning help you see through false logic?

I will only talk about a small point every day, without any brain-burning or verboseness, and will help you develop your own "golden questioning skills".

The world is never short of answers, it only lacks a question that is truly worth answering.