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.