#38 - Asking High-Velocity Questions

👋 Hello there, thank you for being here. This week I am sharing

1. 📚 Books we read in our Homeschool this week

2. 🌐 Interesting Reads from the Web

   • High-Velocity Questions

   • Asking (Better) Questions

3. 💗 Favorite Twitter Finds

   • Becoming an entrepreneur

   • How not to suck at giving feedback

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📚 Books we read in our Homeschool this week

1. Dare to Dream Big by Lorna Gutierrez

2. Bark in the Park!: Poems for Dog Lovers by Avery Corman and Hyewon Yum

3. The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper and Carson Elis

4. Big Words for Little Geniuses by Susan and James Patterson

5. The Boy Who Grew a Forest by Sophia Gholz and Kayla Harren

6. The Great Fuzzy Frenzy by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel

7. The Word Collector by Peter H. Reynolds

8. Where’s the Pair? a spotting book by Britta Teckentrup

9. The Odd One Out - a spotting book by Britta Teckentrup

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🌐 Interesting Reads from the Web

1. High-Velocity Questions

   One of the most effective ways to transform conversations and supercharge learning is to get in the habit of asking what I call high-velocity questions.

   For a question to have velocity, it needs to have speed (ideas per word) and direction (an idea that heads in the desired direction).

2. Asking (Better) Questions

   At Stanford, we encourage students to ask questions that are designed to get the other person actively involved. Such questions can be challenging and even blunt, but they're also open-ended and compel the other person to reflect before answering.

   The list of 62 useful questions by Scott Ginsberg is a great place to start learning to ask better questions.

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💗 Favorite Twitter Finds

1. You become an entrepreneur once you get tired of waiting for someone else to solve your problem.

   Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook_

   You become an entrepreneur once you get tired of waiting for someone else to solve your problem.

2. How not to suck at giving feedback

   Alex Lieberman ☕️ @businessbarista

   People suck at giving feedback. It's not a natural human behavior and we fail to practice and perfect it. But it's a must have if you want to be a great manager or build a great business. My thoughts on feedback...

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