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11 – Questions, Curiosity, and Belonging – Interview with Pia Lauritzen, PhD.

Pia Lauritzen, Ph.D. is a philosopher whose body of work revolves around uncovering the nature of questions and why they may just be more powerful than one may think.

Indeed, questions are everywhere, and yet few of us know just how powerful they can be in changing our world. 

“We know that after a question is asked, the world may never be the same afterward”. 

Pia Lauritzen Ph.D.

Pia is also someone who believes all questions are valid, and that we shouldn’t put too much emphasis on asking questions for the sake of getting answers – rather, we should just look into what the question is trying to tell us. 

This was a jam-packed, condensed conversation with a wonderful, insightful, and thoughtful human. I hope you enjoy this episode, and please don’t forget to connect with Pia Lauritzen on LinkedIn, and check out her upcoming book published with John Hopkin’s University Press. 

Show Notes

Key ideas we explore in this episode:

  • “There is no change without question, so no question = No change”
  • If we want change we need to make room for people to ask questions
  • Why questions are a gateway to new possibilities
  • What makes a question a “Great question”, it’s one that makes the respondent say “That’s a great question”
  • A great question is one that helps individuals explore new paths and new ways of thinking
  • A great question is one that triggers more curiosity 
  • Asking questions on the premise of getting more questions VS. Asking questions on the premise of getting answers
  • We are meant to be in a giant conversation,
  • Pia’s backstory with questions
  • Difference between playing on “Team Questions” vs “Team Answers”
  • Are we willing to be comfortable in not knowing or are we going to move quickly to get answers. 
  • Pia’s response to not belonging is rooted in understanding the nature of belonging and the fundamental truth of not belonging: That we were born to belong. 
  • Not belonging is about losing touch with our belonging- but the underlying truth is that we belong always and everywhere. 
  • Part of being human is to have an existential anxiety of feeling like we don’t belong. 
  • The paradox of belonging
  • The difference between curiosity and question – and why focusing on questions leads to better/more interesting outcomes
  • Organizations and society, in general, are designed to accommodate “what we know” and there is a lack of foundations to support “not knowing” 
  • Why scientists and philosophers understand the power of question – however, Society at large is stuck on the track of “known knowledge”
  • Society is beginning to shift and move towards asking more important questions. 
  • The importance of questions when dealing with societal change and the impact of AI. 
  • Existential, Ethical, and Epistemological questions are of the domain of humans and cannot be answered by AI. 
  • Pia’s new book: Questions: with John Hopkins University Press
  • The importance of slowing down and allowing questions to come and not jumping to the answers
  • Pias’s answer to asking better questions!
  • How questions don’t have to be great, and we should be careful not to put too much pressure on questions. 
  • Questions are small attempts to reach what hasn’t been reached before. 
  • Questions don’t do well with pressure and making room for questions is perhaps the best advice with questions.  

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Acknowledgments:

Music “Playing with Color” by Nullhertz obtained royalty-free from Pixabay

Thank you to the lovely people at Purple Space for your support

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