Ask clear and specific questions. Recognize problems in questions, identify the different types of questions. Questioning is an art. Someone who knows how to ask questions masters dialogue.
Who am I? Do I follow myself? What do I want? Can I change? How can I know myself better? What is the meaning of my life?
How to question those questions? How to deal with a person, an adult or a child, who is concerned about any kind of issue? Or even, how to question ourselves, when we face existential dilemmas?
Too often, we are not aware about the nature of those so-called questions, ours and others. Thus, the first criterion of a good question is precisely to be aware of the content and intention of the formulations we hear and use, in order to be able to determine the nature of their formulation.
In order to ask a clear question, we should determine the nature of the information we want, and formulate it in accordance with this expectation. Often, we don't distinguish well enough the different types of request. For example, "Is this" asks for a fact or a confirmation, "What is" asks for a definition or an explanation, "When is" asks for a time, a circumstance or a condition, "Who is" asks for the identification of a person or a group, "Why" asks for a reason or an argument, etc. But once we ask the question, we should check the validity of the answer, its correspondence to the question, which is the other reason why we should clearly know what we are asking. These are some of the criteria for good questioning. And according to Plato, thinking is the art of both question and answer, the essence of a dialogue.
In this training on the art of questioning, you will be trained to interact with an interlocutor by questioning, with confidence and a clear understanding of the situation.