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Fostering the Q in GenZ

How curiosity shapes the brain for greater learning.

Perhaps the answers lay in the questions?

What would happen if we stopped trying to figure out what young people need to learn for their future?

Instead…

What if we focused more on inspiring them to ask the right questions, their questions…questions that we haven’t even thought about yet?

One of the greatest gifts that we could give to this generation of young people is raise them to have insatiable thirst for inquiry. Think about it. There are relatively universal attributes that most parents and adults agree to as being important for the next generation. A reasonable assumption is that we want them to be kind, hard-working, ethical, optimistic, self-reliant, humble, respectful, etc.

What would happen if we were to value having an inquisitive mindset as much as we value hard-work, for example. The outcome would be that young people would far surpass our greatest expectations for their ability to contribute to the positive improvement of the world.

Young children begin to scaffold and decipher their understanding of the universe around them by asking questions and then constructing their Jenga tower world with the disparate answers. They do this without a template or textbook thus leading to diverse architectures and new creations.

The best questions are ones that parents can’t answer.

“Is time real or just something on a clock?”

“How high to I have to jump so I don’t have to come back down?”

“How did people make the first tools if they didn’t have tools?”

“Why do flies think gross stuff smells good and good stuff smells gross?

“In addition, the researchers found that curious minds showed increased activity in the hippocampus, which is involved in the creation of memories. In fact, the degree to which the hippocampus and reward pathways interacted could predict an individual’s ability to remember the incidentally introduced faces. The brain’s reward system seemed to prepare the hippocampus for learning.”

-Scientific American

So, how would we go about increasing the more important I.Q.- the inquiry quotient? I suggest 5, easy, no-tech, no-cost ways. The ‘it’ is inquiry, btw.

1. Value it.

2. Model it.

3. Foster it.

4. Let them explore their inquiry.

5. Get out of the way.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.

-Chinese proverb

The important thing is to not stop questioning.

-Albert Einstein.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

-Stephen Hawking

Questions are often more effective than statements in moving others. Or to put it more appropriately, since the research shows that when the facts are on your side, questions are more persuasive than statements, don’t you think you should be pitching more with questions?

-Daniel H. Pink

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

-James A. Baldwin

“What’s the one thing that the world’s leading innovators share with children? They both learn through asking questions. It’s the simplest and most effective way of learning. Yet, somehow we have forgotten this lesson as we get older.

We just don’t value questioning as much as we should.

Not asking good or even enough questions has a direct impact on the quality of choices you make. Habituating the art of asking questions enables you to gain deep insight, develop more innovative solutions and to arrive at better decision-making.

Brilliant thinkers and scientists never stop asking questions. Asking questions is the single most important habit for innovative thinkers,” says Paul Sloane, the UK’s top leadership speaker on innovation.

Newton: “Why does an apple fall from a tree but, why does the moon not fall into the Earth?”

Darwin: “Why do the Galapagos Islands have so many species not found elsewhere?”

Einstein: “What would the universe look like if I rode through it on a beam of light?”

Interesting questions from the BBC

1. What if meat was more environmentally friendly?

2. What if we could prevent 90% of road accidents?

3. What if everyone could access their money online?

4. What if we could source clean energy from seawater?

5. What if we could mine the skies for resources?

Imagine what young people would imagine.

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