“Solutions to problems lie a couple of questions away. Each question you ask inches you closer and closer to the solution.”

A problem can feel like a wall when its causes and possible exits are hidden. Each honest question opens a small part of that wall. One answer reveals the next thing that needs to be understood. Questions are useful before trouble as well as during it. They can expose a weak habit, a poor method, or a future result while there is still time to change direction. In that way, questioning can prevent some of the problems it would otherwise have to solve.

The movement matters even when an answer is not immediate. A mind that keeps asking is no longer standing helplessly before the unknown. It is drawing closer to the point where the problem becomes clear enough for a solution to appear.