• + What's next, self?
• + Why do you do the things you do?
• + What do you really believe in? (What do you know to be true?)
• + Where do you find your security?
• + What bothers you, and what are you doing about it?
• + What worries you?
• + If you had one year left to live, how would you spend it?

- Chris Guillebeau

• Other professionals:

Where do they learn how to manage people? Where do they learn to construct and manipulate metaphors? Where do they learn to perceive details of a scene the way a hunter reads a landscape? Where do they learn how to detect their own shortcomings? Where do they learn how to put themselves in others’ minds and anticipate others’ reactions?

• Problems may be obvious, or can be flushed out using trigger questions like the ones below:
  • What would your customers want you to improve?
  • What could they be doing better if we could help them?
  • Who else could we help using our core competences?
  • What small problems do we have which could grow into bigger ones?
  • What slows our work or makes it more difficult? What do we often fail to achieve?
  • How can we improve quality?
  • What are our competitors doing that we could do?
  • What is frustrating and irritating?
• Min Basadur (who created the Simplex Process) suggests using the question 'Why?' to broaden a question, and 'What's stopping you?' to narrow it.