Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

The path to solution is often found in the next (logical) question.

Person A: How much will this cost?

Person B: I don’t know?

Person A: When will you know?

Person B: Uh, I don’t know that either?

Person A: What will you need to do so that you know?

Person B: I’m not sure. I’ll to think about that.

Person A: When will you sit and think about that?

Person B: I don’t know.

Person A: Are you free tomorrow morning at 9 a.m.?

Person B: Yes, I am.

Person A: Then sit tomorrow at 9 a.m. so you can learn what you need to know to know when you will know about how much this costs. That way we will be moving forwards.

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The next (logical) question is quite simple. If you don’t know something, start tomorrow at learning what you need to know so that you will know something. For some reason, we struggle to ask the next (logical) question of ourselves. We need another person to ask us.

Where is that other person who will ask the next (logical) question? Don’t know? What will you need to do to know? When will you sit and learn what you need to know so that you can…