Is a question more powerful than the answer?
Well the question does put you in control. It is the action waiting for a reaction. It is the force that is steering in a direction, waiting for the direction to be filled in.
If you think of answering a great question it goes something like this: someone (not being you, hence collaboration is taking place) sets the scene by asking a great question. This sparks your brain, your interest, you are intrigued. You want to take action, start thinking, find answers to something that was not there (in your brain before). Like lighting a fire, a spark.
So this question generated a spark in someone else's head. That in its own is pretty magical.
Questions spark the quest for knowledge. Finding out what is. Only by shining light on something it reveals itself.
The answers were already always there. It is just asking the right question to bring it out.
As Albert Einstein said: If I were given one hour to save the planet, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute solving it.
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