ask the right questions
ASK the RYT KWES-chunz
æsk ðə raɪt ˈkwɛstʃənzListen
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identify and pursue the most important and productive lines of inquiry rather than becoming lost in trivial or misleading questions; frame problems and investigations in ways that are likely to generate insight; good scientists, investigators, and thinkers are distinguished less by their ability to find answers than by their instinct for asking questions whose answers will matter; the phrase affirms that the quality of an inquiry depends fundamentally on the quality of the questions driving it
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