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How to find answers for your questions ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ [bullet journal](     “It's better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.” ― James Thurber Dear {NAME},  Questions can be the most powerful technology we have to increase the quality of our life. I spend a lot of time searching for better questions. I remember the first time I shifted from asking “How much time will this take?” to “Why does this get to take my time?” It changed the way I lived my life. Yet figuring out what to ask is secondary to an even more important consideration: who to ask.  I spent much of the last 12 months working on building new kinds of educational programs. It was all new territory, so I reached out to subject matter experts. These were all very accomplished and successful individuals, so I took their answers at face value. It slowed the whole operation to painful meandering crawl. It was a major drain financially and emotionally for many many months. Then it hit me:  Though they knew what they were talking about, they didn’t know what I was talking about!  Yes, their skills and expertise overlapped with my efforts, but none of them had actually done what I was setting out to do. So I started reaching out to people who had.  Last week I had a conversation with someone who had done what I wanted to do. The first 15 minutes talking to someone with empirical advice, lived experience, provided more value than many dozens of hours of other expert opinions.  I had finally found the person to ask my questions to. Though I received very helpful and immediately actionable answers, the most valuable thing they provided were better questions -- questions from the future.  They gave me questions that I didn’t even know to ask, but would have inevitably caught me off guard. These were considerations they wish they’d back when they were in my phase of the process. It was nothing short of time travel. Not only did I leave the call with clarity about where I wanted to go, I also had critical information that would collapse the timeline for the getting there.  Sometimes the most powerful question we can ask ourselves when setting out on any new endeavor isn’t how, it’s who. We want to avoid spending a lot of our limited resources reinventing the wheel. In addition to your list of tasks, try making a list of people that have been where you want to go, and ask them the question you’re trying to solve: How do I get there?  Thank you for taking the time. Ryder  Pro tip: Keep the request short and to the point. Offer them something they may value in return for taking their time. It could be money, exposure, work, a donation to a charity they value, etc. Even if they don’t accept, the offer and the research to make that offer matters. If they do respond, it's a great opportunity to cultivate one of the most important resources there is: your peer network (but that’s a topic for a different time). The Bullet Board - [Listen more about the topic](. "This newsletter reminds me of a related podcast episode about 4 different types of people to ask for advice. It was super useful. There are four categories to be aware of and know who to go for each: Competence, Care, Consistency and Character." - Raksha - Bujo U Scholarships: Emails have been sent to those who submitted for a scholarship. Please make sure you check your email! - Become an Affiliate: By becoming a Bullet Journal affiliate, you will get a 10% commission whenever someone uses your code. Active affiliates have a chance to be invited to receive new Bujo® goodies and join us in our love for sharing the gift of Bullet Journal! If you’d like to become a Bullet Journal affiliate, [click here to sign up](. Next in Bujo U: Bujo a Second Brain [Bujo U community]( Each quarter we focus on different themes in [Bujo U](, putting them into practice in Experiments and Book Club.  April - June we are exploring the world of Personal Knowledge Management (PKM). How do we collect, store, manage, use, and create from information? 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