“Sometimes I lie awake at night and wonder, “Where have I gone wrong?” Then a voice says to me, “This is going to take more than one night.”
– Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000), creator of the “Peanuts” cartoon series
I can see Charlie Brown saying the same thing. Especially on a night like Schulz describes.
We all have them. For difference makers, perhaps the question isn’t one of wrong or right, perhaps it is one of “how?”
The urge to ask “Why?” has dominated the DD over the years, but in matters of course correction, assuming we’ve synched on that important directional consideration, the forward-looking question of “How can I get it right?” may make a difference.
“What?” is usually the easiest question to answer — after all it’s what the education system drums in to us — but it’s rarely a focus point because there can often be multiple “whats.” Instead, “How?” questions begin to give us options, ideas, comparisons and therein lies the focus factors we need to move. Forward.
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