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A related exercise that may be of interest: five levels of "why." Find a willing friend or coworker, and ask them why they did something with a project of thei
by bovermyer 3y ago
A related exercise that may be of interest: five levels of "why."
Find a willing friend or coworker, and ask them why they did something with a project of theirs. When they answer that, ask them "why" about their answer. Do this a total of five times.
After the second "why," they'll probably have to think pretty hard. The fourth or fifth "why" sometimes elicits a "because it's just done that way" or "I dunno" response.
Then let them do the same to you.
It's a fun exercise.
- feoren 3y agoThis is the age-old favorite toddler game to enjoy flummoxing their parents. Somehow whenever mine does this with me we end up on "well, because the early makeup of the solar system ... ". Similarly to how repeatedly following the first link in Wikipedia articles tends to land you on Philosophy. It takes more than 5 whys, though.
- Lacerda69 3y agoI was feared as a kid for relentlessy bullying adults with this question. I just remember that most got really annoyed quickly, but some special characters were almost impoasible to crack. In the end everyone gave up.
- JohnFen 3y ago> This is the age-old favorite toddler game to enjoy flummoxing their parents. Yep -- having a child is what taught me that "because" is a totally legitimate answer. Or, for an older child, "I don't know, you should research that".