By far, the greater number of people simply do not know how to ask questions!

The solution to any problem despends on the elucidation of the problem. By its elucidation one unmasks the root of the problem.

There is a critical distinction between these two events:
putting to a question that we automatically and confidently know is the  ORTHODOX RIGHT question

versus

putting a question that is contrarian and therefore unorthodox by which you get an answer that can lead you to a track of questions that peals open the nature of the problem.

At a recent class a person shared a problem, to wit:

I can never complete my morning appointments on time.

From the class two people opted to posit this question:

How do you feel about not being able to complete your appointments on time?

You can anticipate his answer, i.e. I just feel terrible.

We then put to the class that at one level the question is a good one but in the context of the problem, what on earth can you do with his answer, I just feel terrible. Nothing. Therefore the search question was a wasted question.

There is knowledge base by which you can get. With it you can use it to know how to ask questions to elucidate problems.

It is known as the Power Seminar and you can get the info about it from our website.

In this instance, in this class no one was able ask THE question or the track of question to get to the root of the problem. Then it was time to intervene.

We asked him:

What is the spread of you morning appointments?

He replied:

My secretary just puts in too many!

Voila! Now we had the meat of the problem to work on. And this is what we invariably find. When you can strip the problem to its kernel:

it invariably is a simple matter

and

the solution to it presents itself.

The problem is to have the knowledge how to ask.