Learning 101: Asking Questions
Ask questions. That’s how you learn. It can be to yourself, it can be to others, it can be to google.
There are three outcomes to asking questions. All of them are useful.
If you asked the right question, you might get the answer you’re looking for.
If you asked the wrong question, you might get insights on what the question maybe should have been. You might get the answer to what you asked and that isn’t the right answer you need; or you might get pointed some way towards the right question and answer.
You are informed something along the lines of “you asked a stupid question”, or just told that it was the wrong question. In this outcome, you learn that you shouldn’t be asking that person questions willy-nilly. They won’t be as useful as others who can and want to provide good insights. It doesn’t matter if you asked the right or wrong question in the right or wrong way with such people.
I made a helpful infographic on the topic:
There are stupid questions. That’s fine. You don’t know everything. If you want to know things, that’s good. Most often, whether your question is dumb or not doesn’t really change the outcome.
Go out there. The best way to learn is to dig into things and be challenged and not know what’s going on and ask bad questions and ask good questions.