A Spark by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe from Questions Asked, chapter 1

Answers get the credit for change — they carry the solutions, the guidance, the wisdom. But no answer arrives on its own. Each one sits at the end of a chain of thought, and the chain has to be started somewhere; the start is a question. Where nothing is being asked, nothing has begun.

That shifts where the work is. When something in your life goes wrong, or just sits wrong, the first move isn’t a fix — it’s why, how, when, what, who. For Innocent it happened exactly that way: “the moments of decisions that have transformed my life for the better were initiated by moments of questioning” — about his purpose, his mistakes, his direction. No one else had to be in the room, either; “sometimes the right person to ask is yourself.”

Held as a habit, this turns change from something you wait for into something you can begin at will. An answer may take its time coming. A question can be asked today.