Art of asking questions

For the same query asked to the same person, you may sometimes expect two different answers. A number of times these answers depends upon how you are asking the question, ie your way of asking.

You can get the desired answers from your clients, your boss and your manager, once you learn the art of asking questions.

Let's walk through the short story below which may explain this better.

Jack and Max are walking from religious service. Jack wonders whether it would be all right to smoke while praying.

Max replies, "Why don't you ask the Priest?"

So Jack goes up to the Priest and asks, "Father, may I smoke while I pray ?"

The Priest replies, "No, my son, you may not! That's utter disrespect to our religion."

Jack goes back to his friend and tells him what the good Priest told him.

Max says, "I'm not surprised. You asked the wrong question. Let me try."

And so Max goes up to the Priest and asks, "Father, may I pray while I smoke ?"

To which the Priest eagerly replies, "By all means, my son. By all means. You can always pray whenever you want to."


I hope you might have understood,

how different ways of asking may result in different answers.

The Penrose Stairs

A Penrose Stairs is a two-dimensional depiction of a staircase in which the stairs make four 90-degree turns as they ascend or descend yet form a continuous loop, so that a person could climb them forever and never get any higher.




This is clearly impossible in three dimensions; the two-dimensional figure shown above achieves this paradox by distorting perspective. Penrose Stairs is the first impossible object ever made.

For long time, this stair was a mystery for me, but later I came to know, it was just a graphical trick.

Climbing on Penrose Stairs :

Many says that chasing for Victory is just like climbing on Penrose Stairs,



But then I remember the famous saying of Louis L'Amour that "Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more".

Believe that there are no Penrose Stairs in your life, hard work may not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.