The Answer is the Question

THE ANSWER IS A QUESTION210

differently can help them to discover fresh insights from which to draw

potential ideas and actions. We’re making their brain work differently

because those viewpoints won’t be readily accessible; they’ll need to

be considered or constructed.

By asking a Change Context question, for example, you can recast

the issue in a different light to force the other person to consider

aspects about it in that different light:

What would happen if we chose not to resolve this?

or

If this had happened to your mother, what would you be doing differently?

Both of these questions force a sort of mental gymnastics as the other

person cons ...