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How To Answer To Requested Information Notification in Oracle Fusion?
By: Aytan Vahidova
Tags: Notifications, Fusion, Questions, Oracle, Education

Check Requested Information Notification from Purchase Order Action History

Let’s say you have been asked a question from one of the approvers for the Purchase Order you have created. Of course, you will receive a notification regarding this question, but before digging deeper into notification I want to show you how this action looks in Action History of Purchase Order.

When you click on Pending Approval and check the status history you will see below scene:

Let us analyse what we see on the above screen. As we can see, Approver 1 has already approved the document on 15 Dec at 10:30 pm. Then hierarchy moved forward to Approver 2. But Approver 2 did not take approve the action, instead requested information from Buyer who is PO creator in our case. If you pay attention you will see that Approver 2 appears again on the third row without any action indicated in front of his name. It means the active notification is currently not with Approver 2. Approver 2 has assigned an extra action to be processed which is displayed on the second row.

Also, if you take a closer look at the second approval flow <Terms stage>, you will clearly see that the Approver 1 has already terminated his action and an active notification is hanging on Buyer.

Now let us go further and answer the requested information as a Buyer.
Occupant
By: Daniel A. Teo
Tags: One Line, Questions, Poem, Life, Self

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How To Answer To Requested Info: Notification in Oracle Fusion?
Tags: Notifications, Fusion, Questions, Oracle, Education

Check Requested Information Notification from Purchase Order Action History

Let’s say you have been asked a question from one of the approvers for the Purchase Order you have created. Of course, you will receive a notification regarding this question, but before digging deeper into notification I want to show you how this action looks in Action History of Purchase Order.

When you click on Pending Approval and check the status history you will see below scene:

Let us analyse what we see on the above screen. As we can see, Approver 1 has already approved the document on 15 Dec at 10:30 pm. Then hierarchy moved forward to Approver 2. But Approver 2 did not take approve the action, instead requested information from Buyer who is PO creator in our case. If you pay attention you will see that Approver 2 appears again on the third row without any action indicated in front of his name. It means the active notification is currently not with Approver 2. Approver 2 has assigned an extra action to be processed which is displayed on the second row.

Also, if you take a closer look at the second approval flow <Terms stage>, you will clearly see that the Approver 1 has already terminated his action and an active notification is hanging on Buyer.

Now let us go further and answer the requested information as a Buyer.
A is A, B is B. So please, let me be.
By: Goutham N A
Tags: Philosophy, Questions, Awareness, Life, Ideology

Caught in the dream of Utopia,

Great men have theorised,

Analysed, idealised, devised

Worlds that many mesmerised.

In the clutch of what could be,

Should be, would be and might be,

they let their imaginations free be,

Creating fantasies, grandeur maybe.

Forget Thinkers, forget Scientists,

Forget Economists, forget Inventors,

Forget Futurists, forget Philosophers.

For a moment entertain me.

Who so father did stop in his way

from wishing on what their child be.

Who so didn’t care as much

as to let the things around be.

We want our house be big,

We wish our life be grand,

We hope our day be productive

and have a list to define it so.

Can’t a thing be what it is?

Why should anything be something else?

Why we crave the control all over?

Why suppress our will to will to be an idea?

Why suppress our nature to be unnatural?

Why worship something supernatural?

Why wish on a miracle? On what it's not?

Why can’t a thing being so miracle enough?
Can writers be ‘genre-fluid’ in Medium’s new ‘relational’ model?
By: Jl Matthews
Tags: Writing, Curation, Questions, Genre, Médium

Can writers be ‘genre-fluid’ in Medium’s new ‘relational’ model?

Do the changes to curation penalize those of us who cross from one genre to another? Does it depend on your audience? Your content? Where you’re publishing on Medium?

What do you think? I’d love to know.

Also, Thanks to Elaine Mead — I enjoyed your article!
Thank you!
By: Christopher Kokoski
Tags: Evidence, Gratitude, Curiosity, Questions, Life

Thank you! Definitely a curious questioner over here as well. More evidence is always a plus in my book. Thanks for reading and taking time out to leave your thoughtful comment.
今天的TOPIK问题
Tags: Topik, Questions, 留学, Korean Language, Korean

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Card Sessions: Questions & Cards
By: John Kellden
Tags: Conversations, Card Session, Comments, Questions, Cards

Cards considered in light of questions, a gamified way to help you reframe things. Conversations that Mind and Matter.

Gather a small group around a great question.

Conversations that Mind and Matter: Card Sessions
Scrittura
By: Kevin E. Pittack Jr.
Tags: Scrittura, Poetry, Questions, Life, Poetry On Medium

Photo by Elina Krima on Pexels https://www.pexels.com/@elina-krima-1743227

How many savor the

vastness of night

or the depths of devotion

without an inkling of cynicism?

How many realize that the

story will end without

voices to

breathe life into its

fading soul?

How many static minds

will question the sweetness of

life itself?
Ten Hard Questions for the future of humanity
By: Muhammad Fakharuddin
Tags: Questions, Falcón, Humanity, Future

Photo by Callum Shaw on Unsplash

Over time we have reached a pinnacle of time that we have started to accept certain thing as normal (moral); and we have stopped questioning them. Contemplating hard what if or why question is necessary for improvement to keep oneself and humanity in the right direction but on contrary, we are stuck with some old narrative(s) and could not find solution to those and as time passes, those narratives are taking complex and ugly forms.

We have a general perspective that any progress in a physical world is progress and rest we don’t care, or it is better to keep them in academics and libraries.

Nowadays any conversation other than physical world tend to generate friction and since we are not talking about those hard questions, we have accepted that what-ever answers arrived at by majority are the right one, these answers have become sacred to us; We are not willing to change or challenge them because it means going against the herd we belong to.

Talking about them means opening a can of worms which we know we will not be able to reach a consensus on; we have become so much unimaginative that we cannot imagine a better future without them; We are stuck with them as though losing them will erode our identity our own basis of rationality.

But we cannot run away from them forever. So, let’s take the first step and ask those questions and contemplate a world where we can go past them. Let’s try to find an answer which is beyond our political, social, spiritual believes; our core values.

Can we dare to do that; Are we willing to listen to the other side of us or will we continue to dwindle while continuing our quest to be progressive only in a material sense?
Do you have questions? @ Hong Kong
By: Alpha Wong
Tags: Covid 19, Question, Hong Kong, Job

Understand the company first

What is the budget for this opening?

Everyone are code for food, if the budget does not match your expectation. It is better to have an early return here.

2. What is the name of the company?

It is the first place to understand the company. However, If you apply to the company directly without agency you can skip this one. Do not share your resume or cv before those agencies address the name of the company. You need to know collecting those documents from the subject is one of the KPI in their job.

3. What is their domain or industry and what they are doing?

It is a straightforward question, you can evaluate that it is what you happy to work or want to have a career with. For instance, I dislike working with the Casino industry as I think they actually rob the customers. A company should be honest and confident to share their business model and their revenue model. E.g. Uber is making money with an intermediary role.

4. Why the company has this opening (turnover or new headcount)?

It might come with natural turnover or product expansion meaning it is a new headcount. As some of the company has a high turnover rate, it might be related to many factors ( working culture, long working hours or low increment, etc) Again, a company should be honest and confident to share this information with you. And you can always find the clue for it.

5. The location of the company and the working hours?

Owning a car is not common in Hong Kong, most likely you need to use public transportation daily. Measuring the hours that you can spend on transportation can help you have enough rest, time-saving, and rent a place nearby. For instance, If you are living in the countryside of Hong Kong that you might need to spend > 1 hour daily on the subway for a single trip.

6. Do they own their product?

It is not common in Hong Kong that a company owns a product. Many of the company act as a vendor and survive by how many active contracts on-hands. Vendors normally drive their development cycle by external factors such as customer budget, the committed deadline, etc. Unlike software in-house, they might not have enough resource to train you or offer better software ( good coding coverage, good documentation, refactoring phase ).

7. It is a contracted opening or permanent?
- Haley’s Portfolio
By: Haley Kegley
Tags: Poetry, Relationships, Questions, Love, Poem

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questions
By: Kevin Huynh
Tags: Why, Reflections, Questions, Logic, Intuition

what questions do you find yourself asking? i always seem to want to know WHY.

“why do you think that?” i suppose i’m trying to better understand people’s thought processes.

however, as i get older, i realize oftentimes there are things that i seem to know without being able to explain why. so it seems unfair for me too approach others with WHY all the time when its personally getting more difficult for me to do so.

which brings me back to thinking, how do i know what i know is “true?” no doubt it’s my intuition telling me so, my “gut feeling” so to speak, and i used to believe that was unreliable. but getting older, and reflecting more on my past experiences, i realize how i needed to rely on my intuition more than i did. i

nowadays, i believe its a mix of logic and intuition that creates one’s truth. of course, honest self reflection is always a must as far as i’m aware. but i certainly feel as if i’ve finally been slowly reintegrating my intuition that i have neglected for so long. have you ever had similar feelings or thoughts?
NOT ALL QUESTIONS NEED AN ANSWER
By: Ekta Bajaj
Tags: Confusion, Awakening, Questions, Answers, Dilemma

Whatever holds you down and chains your soul is bondage. Whatever triggers the window of soul is the wave of liberation.

To liberate oneself implies to be free from the bondages of mind. To be able to find no limit to your souls flight, to see no end and no beginning of the soulful journey, to wait for no right moment for every moment is this that is perfectly designed for you, in sync with the melody of your soul.

Your inner warrior is constantly warning you that the force that compels a mind to choose between right and wrong is the creator of the chains that lead to bondage for there is no duality; all is one. The truth is the melody that your soul sings and it can only sing the song that right for you. Negative and positive; These terms are the excuses of a weak mind. The warrior woman seeks the truth and only the truth. Those who have realised that their liberation precedes the need for being free has in true sense been soulfully liberated.

Surrender to the moment that is now and let all questions, dilemma, doubt and pride burn out to bring you to a point of nothingness. This is the place when you are truly liberated for there are no conditions and complains. The past is forgotten in whole, leaving just the essence of lessons learnt and the future is a distant drama that will respond to the choices of the moment of now. When such state is reached when knowing and not knowing merge to give way to ‘Just being’, you will be soulfully liberated.

True liberation is the understanding and knowing that not all questions need an answer, not all choices needs a reason, not all bondages need a release, not all knowledge needs a learning, not all pain needs a relief and not all emotions need a trigger.

Ekta Bajaj

www.thekalimoment.com
How Do I?
By: Jake Penningsworth
Tags: Self-awareness, Writing, Poetry, Questions, Friendship

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The darkroom?
By: Rawa Ahmed
Tags: Questions, Dark

The door was open, it was my first time seeing it open, I decided to go in but I was still afraid. My thoughts were spoiled, my heart rate was like the heart rate of the football player who is just about to hit the ball of the last penalty of the final match of the world cup. My mind plays with me as if I am a baby. I am crying but no one hears me. The sounds in my mind drive me crazy but I am still on my way to enter the room through the open door. The door was really dark and sounds were coming from every corner of the door as if it is a graveyard been left for years without been visited by anyone. I am making another step toward the darkroom. My feelings change second by second. I have no single idea about what I am about to do.
10 Questions For Flat Earth Believers
Tags: Flat Earth, Globe, Stupid, Questions, Conspiracy Theories

1. how do compasses work on the flat earth? A compass works by magnetic fields… no magnet can have a north pole in the center and a south pole that is a ring around the outside, so how does a compass work on your flat earth? If the south pole is really a ring around the outer edge, then the south pole of the earth’s magnetic field would have to be a ring around the entire outer edge of the planet disk… and yet that is impossible, no such magnet can even exist. If the south magnetic pole is in one place, then a compass would not work at all, because it would be trying to point at the north and the south when they would only be aligned on one longitude… in any other place, the compass would be trying to point in two directions the same time!

2. how do you explain that the true north pole and the magnetic north pole are not in the same place on a flat earth?

3. how do you explain that the north magnetic pole is moving?

4. how do you explain the “precession of the equinoxes”?

5. how do you explain that the sky rotates counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere, and clockwise in the southern hemisphere on a flat earth? There are only two possibilities… either the north and south hemispheres themselves rotate in opposite directions, something that you could easily see at the equator (because the land and sea would be rushing past each other) or the sky itself is divided in half and half rotates one way and the other half rotates the other way, again, which you would plainly see because stars would zip past each other on a 24 hour basis.

6. how do you explain that every single profession that requires a person to know the shape of the earth only hires those people who believe in the spherical earth, and would refuse to hire a flat earther? No flat earther will ever be hired as an airline pilot, a ship’s navigator, a surveyor, a cartographer, or any other job that requires knowing the shape of the planet, why is that?

7. why do surveyors always use the curve of the earth in every calculation, whether building a building, laying out the route for a rail line, or road, or calculating property lines and borders? If they used the curve and the earth was not really a sphere, all their calculations would be wrong… so why do they include the curve if the earth is really flat?

8. shadows of vertical objects are longer the closer you get to either pole… how do you explain this on a flat earth?

9. how do you explain a lunar eclipse if the earth is flat and the sun never goes “below” the flat disk? what’s casting the shadow on the moon?

10. why are you still living in prehistoric times? are you daft?
How can I earn from a school solver?
By: Amit Rathod
Tags: Tutor, Student, Education, Teaching, Question

School Solver is an amazing website to earn money and learn. This website useful for all types of students, you can ask questions as a student and also answer questions as a tutor.

How can we earn?

1)First you have to register on the school solver website and go to (my school solver) add your details to my account (option).

2)Complete the School Solver Rules quiz with above 90 percent. It consists of 27 questions in 20 minutes.

3)Take any subject test by adding funds through PayPal, The test must be passed with above 90 percent to become a tutor. It also provides other options such as write 400–600 words about school solver in a public blog.

3)After completion of the test you become a tutor. Now you can solve student questions, assignments, etc

4)This website preview your answer (small part) to students.When students like your answer they can be bought.

Pros

a)In school solver money transactions are in dollars. So it is the best advantage for the currency which country has a high amount in dollars.

b)School Solver checks plagiarism, So you cannot fraud.

c) It is strictly bound by their rules. Please follow rules,otherwise, they will kick out you.

d)When you have any doubts, you can email through this schoolsolverweb@gmail.com, They can respond very fastly.

e)The best thing about this website is you can’t stick to one subject. You can solve any subject.

e)Whenever Student bought your answer money is added to your account.

How can we answer?

1.You can type in a word and make a pdf to post

2.They will accept handwritten answers

Pros

a.If you put a wrong answer, students raise query you can edit answers. This is the best option available in the school solver.

b.After resolve student query they will rate your answer to become a popular tutors.

c.Whenever your answer is not sufficient, you can edit your answer.

d.When you posted your answer, you can make a price for your answer. You can make fewer dollars by student price.

e.The best thing about this website is you can post answers if already someone is posted an answer.

f.Student has their own choice to buy any tutor answer.

Prepayments

If you are familiar with a student’s question, you can make a prepayment with the student to solve his /her problem. It is a better way to earn money. If you failed to solve, money automatically deducted from your account.

Finally, School Solver is the best website to earn money and their rules are very good against fraud.

Website link:https://www.schoolsolver.com

Thank You.

Best Wishes,

Amit Rathod.
Touchy Subject
By: Terry Mansfield
Tags: Haiku, Poetry, Age, Questions, Humor

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Tricky
By: Terry Mansfield
Tags: Poetry, Tricks, Questions, Humor, Poem

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The Indian Question and Answer Website Site- Qans
Tags: Questions, Answers, Qans

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Questions
By: Tina Tsang
Tags: Questions, Curiosity, Asking Questions

The person who asks questions is the one who is paying the most attention. Their inquisitive nature also exposes how much they want to contribute to your goals.

The more questions that arise, the more rich the conversation can become because there are uncovered, shared interests (or maybe unshared interests, which also reveal something else on its own). Being the person to ask the questions, regardless of what you might think the other person is thinking, lets you become the person driving the conversation.

Questions are good. We should welcome more questions instead of criticizing people on poking at what we may think hold true. Questions challenge our way of thinking and embrace curiosity (something we need more of in this world).
The Question
By: Patrick M. Ohana
Tags: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Existence, Question, John Lennon

Photo by Ilkka Kärkkäinen on Unsplash

The Question

Why is there something instead of nothing? And we don’t need to go into the beautiful physics of it. Let’s just look at the question philosophically. Being already something, we can surmise that there’s something. But then we learn that there’s also nothing. Something and nothing. What about everything? That is a utopia and therefore it doesn’t exist. Like my muse on the Moon.

So, something and nothing. What is nothing, though? Again, no breathtaking physics are required. Let’s just reason a little more. Nothing may mean the lack of something. But there is always something. If we begin to remove every something that there is here and everywhere else in the universe and beyond, it will never end (even at the speed of light). Thus, we may conclude that there’s always something. So, nothing may not even exist.

Of course, we mean the universal nothing, not the lack of real dinosaurs. If the total nothing doesn’t exist, we can surmise that even the smallest nothing doesn’t exist. That there’s no zero. But 1 – 1 = 0. That looks like mathematics. We’re only philosophizing. But One minus One equals Zero. Each One is something. So, something minus something is still something. There is always something. But the two Ones were equal. And thus, One minus One is equal to zero. Then, it only applies to mathematics because in real life, something minus something is always still something.

And that something is God. I’m sorry but I couldn’t resist. That something is something. And thus, there’s no nothing. There’s always something (to remember). And today, I choose to remember John Lennon and, of course, my muse.
Interview question “Tell me something about yourself”
Tags: Questions, Creativehubzone, Interviews 2

Tell me something about yourself. " Creativehubzone

A guide to understand question "Tell me something about yourself". Interview summary and providing answers. Align with…
What’s this?
By: Adam Wu
Tags: Questions

What can it bring for me?
How to Buy Things Better
By: Jimmy Cerone
Tags: Money, Heuristics, Questions, Ideas, Mr Money Mustache

My friend and I have been chewing on this problem for a long time: How can we decide what is worth buying?

I came upon this problem for a variety of reasons. The first is my crippling perfectionism. I can’t just buy a thing. I need to buy the perfect thing perfectly.

I remember once I tried to buy a diffuser at my favorite local store. As I reached for the diffuser, the cheapest one, my mind flashed forward 24 hours. I was huddled under a bridge, shoeless and now homeless. In my insane mind, buying the diffuser was the first step in a spending spree that would end with me homeless and penniless.

I ended up buying that diffuser and enjoying the hell of it. Rather unsurprisingly, my purchase did not lead to an uncontrollable spending spree.

But, my irrational fear does illustrate a potent fact: buying the right things is hard.

Buying anything can be a guilt ridden process and it’s made worse by the fact that our fallible minds sometimes lead us astray.

How can we decide what’s best to buy?

I’ve been thinking about this question a lot lately and I think I finally have some clarity.

My friend and I developed the first question I ask when considering a purchase, while Mr. Money Mustache gave me the second question in an interview with Tim Ferriss.

Questions

How often do you think about buying it?

I acknowledge this is not a perfect predictor of the viability of a purchase. It is a proxy and an imperfect one. But I’d argue it’s good enough. If you struggle daily to untangle cords, that $5 cord holder will come to mind often. And I’d bet that it’s a great purchase. Why? I think the reason this question is great because it is an awesome proxy for the next question. The more often you have a problem, the more you think about a solution and the more valuable that solution will be to you.

2. What problem does the purchase solve?

Mr. Money Mustache has a fascinating philosophy that underpins the value of this question: More happiness comes from removing a negative than adding a positive. As Dr. Mike Bechtle quotes in his blog:

“The brain is like Velcro for negative experiences, but Teflon for positive ones.”
Jouissance (Guilty Pleasures)
By: Richa Gandhi
Tags: Self-awareness, Guilty Pleasure, Realizations, Questions, Poems On Medium

Hello readers! I hope you enjoy this small poem of a personal reslisation. Here it goes!

A space in time,

A phase in time,

where we all are good

but not are fine!

We dare to be clear

To reach at a point

but what is that point?

when you are surrounded by a line!

It is important to do the important

But, we always stress

Stress on — the ‘feel good’

Feel good, of your jouissance (guilty pleassure)

Which naturally feels quilty.

There is a burning inside,

There is a regret inside,

There is a hunt inside,

For accepting your actions by all sides.

I wonder if it’s only me,

The only failure of this beautiful kind

OR am I in all of our kind?

Gripping this Ditto feeling with their respective kind!
How do you uncover what you don’t know?
By: Julie Kenny
Tags: Active Listening, Questions, Powerful Questions, Listening, Questioning

I find in many coaching conversations that two topics consistently come up for discussion. These two topics are that people need to listen more effectively and ask better questions.

Why ask questions?

Increase understanding

Avoid errors

Demonstrate empathy

When we take the time to really listen to people and ask thoughtful questions. Then we can better understand the real challenges and issues the person is facing. We can get to the heart of the matter and actually solve problems.

Why don’t people ask questions?

Don’t want to

Don’t feel comfortable doing so

Don’t want to be seen as ignorant

I find many people are uncomfortable with asking a lot of questions. This is because they are either embarrassed to show ignorance. Or they don’t want the other person to get irritated with them. Sometimes it can also be because we don’t know what we don’t know. So then we don’t know to ask about it. The question is how can we avoid this from happening?

What should you question?

Every statement

Your own bias and assumptions

Qualify the details, agreements and next steps

The issue

How many times do you receive information but that once you act or the other person acts upon the information there is a mistake? Or someone goes about the task incorrectly?

Why does this happen?

It happens because we don’t actually ask enough questions. We make assumptions and then are surprised when it turns out our assumptions are wrong.

So how can we avoid this from happening?

Ask effective questions

Ask questions until you fully understand the issue

Playback with open questions

Summarise the discussion

Don’t be afraid to ask more questions. Qualify information and double-check the details. Try saying “I understand that you see two issues blocking you from moving forward. I’d like us to really dig into each issue separately. Can you explain further what you meant when you said X statement?”

Identify and test your assumptions. We all have biases. We need to understand how they impact us and our understanding of an event. Have you ever arranged to meet someone at a location you both knew? Then when you get there, you’re in a different spot from each other. This is because you both had made an assumption about the location and didn’t double-check your information.

Regularly rephrase or paraphrase what you have heard. This way you can ensure you have the facts correct. You can take the time to uncover hidden issues that you may not be aware of.

Once you have completed your discussion. Summarise the key points and your next steps with. I also try to do this via email if I can. Once it’s written down it’s harder to forget what you agreed to do and by when.
When are we living our life?
By: Rajiv Nair
Tags: Uncertainty, Attention, Modern Life, Questions, Life

If we ask ourselves about what exactly living life is then I am sure that not many people might have an answer to that question. I’m totally clueless as well.

But if we see the way our life has evolved over the years and from the point in life where we were just playing cricket endlessly until the sunset at the end of the day and the street lights are switched on to the time where we just don’t get out of our houses for normal walks and even if we occasionally do, we time it to minutes and seconds just in case we get tired because of the additional few seconds and a few more meters that we walk or run.

We are preoccupied with thoughts, things, goals and social media that we hardly have the time to breathe or just to concentrate our minds on our breathing. We are constantly hustling, both, the people working for 9–12 hours a day and the person who’s just at home doing nothing for 16 hours in a day. We give away way too much for things that are instantaneous attention-grabbing ice-candies that will eventually wane away into desolation.

I am a prime example for both the above-mentioned species of people. I sometimes hustle with my academics, reading and writing all in the same day and some days I just laze around doing nothing but just scroll through hours of social media feed.

How can we tackle this peculiar trait of us not giving time for ourselves to do things that aid in the betterment of our mental health or peace which in turn will keep us in good stead?

What do you think is lacking in us? Or what do we have in abundance that we don’t want to look away from the things that are trying to pull us from doing actually simple things?

We are a generation of nincompoops just relishing the shortlived desirable lives in paper towns, who fail to realize that most of what we do accounts to an equivalent value of a big scary zero.
10 css interview questions — set 1
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Ask These Questions and Get Life Lessons That Blow Your Mind
By: Eva Keiffenheim
Tags: Inspiration, Life Lessons, Questions, Advice, Tim Ferriss

Which questions would you ask if you had one hour with Bill Gates, Michelle Obama, and Warren Buffett?

Most people don’t know. They talk their way through life and never realize the power of great questions. Back in the 19th century, Georg Cantor said,

“To ask the right question is harder than to answer it.”

And it’s true: asking great questions is hard — probably nobody ever taught you how to do it.

But luckily, asking mind-blowing questions is a skill you can learn. Once you internalized your favorite ones, you can always come back to them.

To write this article, I listened to podcasts and revisited my summaries from ‘Zero to One’, ‘Tools of Titans’, and ‘Flow’. The result is this list with 34 curated questions on mindset, inspiration, resources, habits, business, and creativity.
The Burning House, a Picasso, and a Kid
By: Pushing Happily
Tags: Self-awareness, Effective Altruism, Philosophy, Questions, Ideas

The Burning House, a Picasso, and a Kid

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The burning house, a Picasso, and a kid

There’s a house in your neighborhood, you walk past it often. There is a particular place and moment when you walk by that you can spot a painting on the wall. You look at it, without fail, whenever you pass by the house on your walks.

You did your thesis on Picasso, and that painting screams Picasso to you. You know Picasso made around 50 000 artworks in his lifetime(an unfathomable average of 2 per day). You finally decide to do some research and find out it’s indeed a Picasso. One worth a couple of million.

One day on one of your usual walks, you see the house burning. It looks bad, you notice a kid in one of the rooms screaming for help. There is no one around and there isn’t a lot of time.

You break down the entrance door, try to make your way up, then a thought occurs to you. The Picasso. I should also save it!

For a split second you reason that if you save the Picasso you can sell it, you can donate the money and save so many lives and reduce a lot of suffering. Much more lives could be saved with that money… than the death of one child.

But there’s no time! You can either save the kid or the Picasso.

Fuck the Picasso, you save the kid.¹

In theory it’s less overall suffering, one child’s life against countless others. But that is not how we are wired and that is not our nature.

Many argue that the Picasso should be saved and not the child. Utilitarians and most effective altruists in particular. Both utilitarianism and effective altruism have mostly excellent points and are data driven. Perhaps at some point we will get to a point where we can look at things so rationally and emotionlessly, but for now we can’t decouple ourselves from our emotions.

I personally could not do it, regardless of knowing how much more good would be done by saving the Picasso. The child is right there, right now. The others are somewhere abstract and in the future. I could not sleep at night, no matter how rationally I would explain it to myself.
Life in the Lockdown
By: Navaneethkrishnan Nambiar
Tags: Questions, Social, Wellness, Life, Lockdown

How are you doing ?

What’s life been like amidst the lockdown ? Varied experiences for people basis their own circumstances have led to a vastly different outcomes. What has each one of us learnt from the predicaments that life has thrown at us ?

The lockdown to some has been of immense learning and self-discovery. There have been bakers, chefs, artists — all of these skillsets having lain dormant throughout for so long finally found an outburst with wonderful results. At the same time life hasn’t been so kind to everybody — jobs and livelihoods lost on the financial front; but more so are the innumerous lives that have been taken from us.

Have you wondered — apart from all of these statistics on deaths and positive cases; what is life like to be someone else ? Have you put yourself into another’s shoes to look at life from their eyes — their hopes and dreams and all of their memories. Life in its transience moves on — people forget; but to the ones that you mean the world to — life stands still. Can we as a species imagine the collective grief that we are going through right now ? We all seem preoccupied in bringing our lives to a semblance of normalcy — that this might often be skipped amidst the priorities that our work might impose on us. But what is more important — what could be more important than knowing our own friends and neighbors.

Do we really know them ? Can we unmask the social façade that our lives are built on ? And truly ask — How are you doing ? Would they answer ? With those questions — I’ll leave you to ponder this coming week. Think over it and truly ponder in moments of solitude — your own well-being; both physical and mental.
Is anxiety the shadow of growth?
By: Gordie Jackson
Tags: Anxiety, Growth, Waking Up, Shadow, Questions

Photo by Rostyslav Savchyn on Unsplash

I was twisting and turning a bit in bed when I awoke this morning. Yes, of course, it is dark outside as it is at this time every year but as you know I often get up in the darkness and I am happy to sit in the chair with my mind towards you and dawning with the sun.

This morning I was reluctant to get up. The waking hour seems to tell us like our dreams what is on our minds. The tension goes back to Friday, just when I think I am all done I discover more is asked.

It is that thinking that wonders, “Will I finish?” And yet the answer comes through another question, “How many times have you thought like this?”

Too many, nearly always, so much so that it is part of the process but couldn’t we just cut out the restlessness? If we know we will get there why the need to have the tension?

The answer could be the same to the questions, “Why does the kettle make so much noise when it is boiling?” “Why can’t the bathroom fan spin without the noise?”

Is this exercising of the mind part of absorbing the challenge in order to get the job done? And if I am still for a while I can detect other anxieties attaching themselves to this one. Like a man who has gone asleep and has awoken to forget who he is, “Who am I?” “What day is it?” “Where am I ?” “Who do I belong to?” “Who belongs to me?”

If for a moment I may not remember. But here too there may be anxiety but here too there is potential. With every, “ How can I?” I add ‘not’, “How can I not?”

While anxiety may be unsettling it is good to ask yourself the questions so that you have honed your answer.

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Dear Kathy,
By: Kristenbarney Kristendagmarsdottir
Tags: Questions, Submission Guidelines, My Muse, Nom De Plume

Dear Kathy,

I think I pushed “publish” for my last submission- “One Life” By Kristen Barney. On my tablet, which is all I have right now, I don’t there was a choice, like the sidebar on a laptop. If you have a way to get around this problem I would really appreciate it.

I have one more question: If I want to change my last name to a pen name, how do I deal with that? Do I contact you, put it in my bio, or say “Writing as Kristen Dagmarsdottir” ? That is the name I would like to use. It speaks to my heritage, and honors my mother, who was an artist and an inspiration; not only for me, but for many others also.

Thank you, Kristen Barney
Being Patient
By: Sana Hasan
Tags: Questions, Difficult Times, Stress, Patience, Advice

Being Patient

Observing patience is really hard. On the other hand, advising someone to be patient is quite easy. When you have to practice it yourself then that’s the real moment.

It’s difficult to be patient when you are not getting married and the other person keeps asking you about your marriage plans.

It’s difficult to be patient when you are not having a child and you are asked about your plan to have a child.

It’s difficult to be patient when you are not getting admission in a university and you have been questioned about it.

It's difficult to be patient when you are not getting a job and you have been interviewed about it.

It's difficult to be patient when you are going through a hard time after losing your parent and you are constantly questioned about the reason of the death.

It’s difficult to be patient when you have lost the way and somebody constantly asks you the route to the destination.

It's difficult to be patient when someone is on purpose saying bad things about you.

It’s difficult to be patient when you are already stressed for being tested by your Lord and you have been questioned.
Why should you help someone today?
Tags: Questions, Thoughts

By helping someone else today, you may also be helping yourself too you never know it is up to you at the end of the day.
Dear Unfinished Poems
By: Veronica Georgieva
Tags: Writing, Poetry, Mental Illness, Questions, Poem

Realizations come with writing,

that’s why I’m scared to write.

What secrets are you hiding

that my subconscious tries to fight?

What will be your final say

the day I let the words all out?

How do I know if I will be okay

if I confess what I’m crying about?

What if I whisper or even scream

all that’s on my mind,

even all I don’t wanna hear,

then what will I find?
Power of Open Ended Questions with Kids
By: Nandini Priya Rabelli
Tags: Parenting, Intrinsic Motivation, Questions, Education, Open Ended Questions

I was introduced to the term “ Open Ended Questions” way back in 2008–9 when I was working in Training & Development team. I was amazed to learn how ignorant we were in using words that don’t allow the other person to open up. How the change in wording, can help us dig wealth of information from the other person. And how, by being a little conscious, we can transform our daily conversations to add so much more meaning.

We generally tend to ask “ What did you think of the presentation?” which majorly gets answered in “ Good or Ok”. However, if we reframe the question and ask “What could have been different in today’s presentation?” there are greater chances of a longer insightful conversation.

Though I felt “wow” by this learning then, I was using it less frequently. Now, in my conversations with my daughter I feel I used it more often. I feel this learning and mastery especially in kids conversations can be categorised into levels of Basic and Pro. I am just around Basic level. So for a certain type of conversation I do use open ended questions. However, the more I get conscious, I realise I have a long long way to go.
Is Social Media Depressing??!
By: Char Coleman
Tags: Realizations, Questions, Social Media, Depression, Self

Have you ever had a day or days where you logged onto Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and even YouTube, but then regretted that you clicked on that app sometime in your day?

I mean we love social media for the inspirational and encouraging post. We even love it to get a good ole rib busting laugh or where we can voice our opinion. But there is a thing we go by, with taking the good with the bad.

Do or will we accept the bad that comes with social media and the internet? The sad stories, drama, disrespect, rudeness, death, stereotyping, negativity. anger, depression, and judgement tends to over shadow the laughs, inspiration, and positivity.

There’s a saying that word don’t hurt, but I’m sure we all one way or another agree that words can hurt. Matter a fact, words can cut you deeper than a wishing well.

In front of our eyes, we have had a chance to witness how the comments or opinions from people (mainly from the internet) have influenced people to change something about who they are. Now in some instance it can be for a good change.

Like if someone advised out of care/respect on a subject on how to be better as internally, versus someone judging how you look and who you are as a person.

Then on the other side, you can see how others are doing and feel as though you’re not where you should be. It can naturally take a toll on you if it does not inspire you, but rather make you competitive and jealous. Once the competitive energy dies down, that’s where the depression tend to kick in.

It’s always best to keep your eyes in your own lane. You spend to much time paying attention to someone else’s lane, you’re liable to crash.

Have you ever gotten depressed after logging onto Social Media?

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Please hide her name
By: Angela Farley
Tags: Questions, Articles, Haiku, Poetry

“My husband found me in bed with another man in our bedroom. I expected him to shoot both of us right there but he didn’t.

He nicely asked my side guy to get dressed and leave. I was shaking to the toe at that moment. He told me to go take a shower.

I tried to apologize but he told me he didn’t want to talk about it, because there was nothing he could do to reverse what happened. That was the last time we spoke about it. Ever since that day he has been nice to me. He buys me flowers and take me out at least twice a week.

Just last week he took me shopping and spent R4400. He’s busy organizing a baecation for us overseas before Christmas .

My husband is doing everything I want as from a man, but here is my problem.

What he saw last month is eating me everyday, especially since he doesn’t want to talk about it. I’m losing weight. I expected him to chase me away, punish me or call a family meeting to report me. He’s doing the opposite.

I feel like he’s planning to do something bad to me. Sometimes I open my eyes at night and find him looking at me. When I ask he says he’s admiring my beauty and thanking God for blessing him with a flame of a woman. I think he’s planning to do something to me when we are overseas. Am I being unnecessarily paranoid?”
Do all posts need an image at the top? I get that the headline grabs the attention of the reader. If the writing is good and the headline is catchy — why force an image? Is it more inviting? Some…
By: Mike Marolla
Tags: Writing, Questions, Image, Discussion, Thoughts

Do all posts need an image at the top? I get that the headline grabs the attention of the reader. If the writing is good and the headline is catchy — why force an image?

Include a high-quality image in your story to make it more inviting to readers. — Medium

Is it more inviting?

Some posts benefit from an image, as they are critical to the theme. Is this true for all of them? Might an image be better placed inside the story? This would help to break up larger blocks of text.

All posts aren’t created equal, so I’m just wondering if the “image at the top” concept needs reconsidering. In some cases (and coming from my own limited experience), it just seems forced.

Any thoughts on this? I would love to hear what your view is.