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CHAPTER 5

Ask a Better

Question

The first creative thinking power tool I’d like
to cover is a concept that I call Ask a Better
Question. Let me introduce you to it through
an exercise I do with the groups that I lead in
my workshops.
Look at this picture. This is a picture of me.
I want you to answer this question in the blank
spaces below. What am I wearing? (Come on,
play along. You’ll learn something, I promise.) What am I wearing?

You probably wrote something like “dark suit, neutral shirt, dark
tie,” maybe “black shoes.” You knew all the answers. You were “in the
known.” There was little place for your imagination. What you don’t
know, however, is what kind of socks I am wearing. In the blanks below,
I want you to venture some guesses about what kind of socks I might be
wearing.