R&Sers.. your thoughts?

Question

“Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”
-- Anthony Robbins

What if we asked ourselves these questions?
- Is there a message for me in this experience?
- What’s the gift in this situation?
- What can I learn from this?
- What’s the most loving thing I could do now?
- What’s the most important thing for me to focus on now?
- What would I do if I knew I could not fail?
- What would I do if there were nothing to fear?



“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
-- Francis Bacon

furiousblue, nope.. not a criticism at all.. I was curious as to what people thought of this question and not others.

4Him, how is that an answer?

Answer 1

this set of questions can help a person deal with "adverse" situations and lose out on the opportunity to complain about the unfairness of the world and about what a victim they are. it's hard to ask these questions of a friend who comes to tell of their adversities and even harder to pull ourselves by the scruff of the neck and ask them.
i'm printing them out and stickin them on my wall. thanks K.

Answer 2

I'm not sure exactly what you are getting at here. The questions you list seem to be those that would go into making ethical decisions. Actually, any one of them might function as a good stimulator of good answers.

I agree wholeheartedly that we need to think about what we are doing here, and write our questions and our answers with a serious effort to give it our best.

Has everyone here really thought about what a unique opportunity this is to communicate with the entire English-speaking world on a category of questions that people are rarely able to discuss among themselves. Oh, yes, you can go to a church or other religious organization, but you will find there mostly people who already share your opinions. Or you can take academic courses treating religion as a topic in sociology or psychology or philosophy, or even anthropology, and get all nicely abstract with other college-educated people in cool, unemotional discourse.

But to share here with young and old, well-educated and those with barely enough education to write a question we can answer. People who believe all different things, and people who doubt all different things. And yes, even people who use humor as a way to get their point across. This is a rare opportunity, and we'd better not blow it!

Answer 3

learning is never wasted, and that is the gift i get here. i do not search for ultimate wisdom here.

i come here to share what little wisdom i may have, and to hear what others think. this forum is unique in that anyone can ask or answer a question and someone almost always gains from it.

i have never worried about failure...if i decide to try something i will do my best. there is no real failure then. the only thing i fear is spiders.

i don't know if this is the answer you were looking for, but i did my best.

bright blessings to you.

Answer 4

I think the world would be a better place if everyone thought of what the most loving thing they could do was and did it. I think we (people as a whole) would be much happier in our lives if rather than looking at all bad experiences as bad we looked at them as learning experiences that will help us to grow and become better people. I think that if 1 out of every 10 people were to find one way to benefit mankind even in the smallest way, the world would be much better off.

Answer 5

A question asked for the knowledge to be gained, is also a gift. A question asked to achieve a personal or ordered goal, of manipulating another, is an anchor of the mind and soul.

Answer 6

I am reminded of the Chinese "self-criticism" so much in evidence during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, when it was a cult practice to ask such of oneself. As Mao himself put it, it armed the people with a "moral atom bomb" that allowed them to withstand deprivation and persecution.

I think too much introspection gets in the way of resolute action; what we must hone is our ability to intuitively express the qualities suggested by such questions and move instinctively to action based on the stimulus.

A moral atom bomb of thought is no match for a moral atom bomb of action.

Answer 7

Hmm. Your question strikes me as a none-to-subtle critique of the quality of most of the questions found in this forum. If so, I don't disagree. But I think there are enough good ones (and entertaining ones) to make it worthwhile.

Answer 8

Beautiful!

Answer 9

fortuitously one won't be able to be arrested or convicted for ones ideas, yet can write about those eccentric ideas and be seriously acclaimed. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" replaced into an rather good e book/movie.

Answer 10

if you ask right questions - you get right answers, but sometimes to figure out what the question is - is extremely difficult

as for me, the only question I always ask myself is "What do I learn from this?" it's impossible to never make mistakes but it's more than possible to learn from them