What Kind of Question are You Asking?

What is your biggest question right now?

You may have asked it explicitly — to yourself or in conversation with others. But maybe it’s a silent question that’s guiding your life, even if you haven’t said it aloud or even fully articulated it to yourself.

Is it the kind of question that’s keeping you up at night? Or stirring anxiety?

Or is it a question that is possibility-making?

Either way, it’s probably functioning inside you and your world, even if it doesn’t have a complete answer.

All questions are allowed. But if yours has an anxious framing, is there any way to ask another question around it — maybe even a bigger one — that opens up possibilities? For you? For others?

—Renee Roederer