Let us look at the following quotes
- I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself. (Elon Musk)
- Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology. (Vinod Khosla)
- The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity (Albert Einstein)
- In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted (Bertrand Russell)
- He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever Chinese Proverb
- Questioning is to thinking as yeast is to bread making.Questioning is what converts the stuff of thinking into something of value.( Jamie McKenzie)
If we read through quotes from some of the eminent persons mentioned above,
It becomes clear that questioning is critical for enhancing our knowledge as
said by many eminent personalities from all walks of life. Most of our scriptures
as well as scientific works are actually answers to questions asked by some
one. So a question comes to mind that can we use this technique of questioning to
improve our level of excellence effectively? I think we can!
As we know and discussed in previous blogs, “Excellence
is the commitment one makes with one self to continuously do better than what
one has done previously in the entire activities one performs on personal and
professional life. The benchmark is
oneself and it is continuously moving upwards. There is not end as to final
level of excellence”
When
we want to improve our level of excellence, we need to first identify what
level we are in and what needs to be done to move to higher level, then execute
them to reach to the higher level of excellence. We can actually use
questioning for this purpose. If we question the “status quo” in our life and
ask why
for the same, we will get the answers to what we need to do to improve. Whenever
we feel comfortable in doing a specific activity and feel that we have achieved
all the things necessary to do this activity and consider ourselves as experts
or we do not find difficulty in doing the specific activity; it is time for us
to question ourselves to check what can be done to better the same, what would
push us to the zone of uncomfortability for the next level. As soon as we feel
comfortable and being human we prefer to be in the level of comfortability, we
stop improving our excellence and as the time passes, we start falling down. So
questioning oneself regularly and answering the questions by being truthful to
oneself provides us the way to the next level of excellence. It is very easy to question others but
questioning oneself requires courage as one feels that everything one is doing
is the right and best way of doing things. Even if we question ourselves, it
requires further courage to answer them truthfully. We actually know what can
be done to improve our level of excellence but either do not admit it or we are
lazy to take those additional efforts and continue to use shortcuts which keeps
us at lower levels of excellence. So questioning status Quo and answering it
truthfully surely takes us to the next level of excellence.
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