The Art of the Question: Why Asking Matters More Than Ever Now
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The Art of the Question
There’s a moment in a TV show that has always stuck with me. There is an episode of a TV series called Star Trek: Deep Space 9 and in the very first episode, Emissary, Captain Benjamin Sisko is pulled into a conversation with a group of aliens who exist outside of time as we understand it.
To them, there is no past, no future—only the eternal "now." They don’t comprehend cause and effect, because they don’t experience time in a linear way. From their perspective, everything just is.
But Sisko, trying to help them understand what it means to be human, gives them an example that is so simple, yet so profound: baseball.
"Every time I throw this ball, a hundred different things can happen. He might swing and miss, he might hit it. The point is, you never know. You try to anticipate, set a strategy for all the possibilities as best you can. But in the end, it comes down to throwing one pitch after another and seeing what happens. In fact, the game wouldn’t be worth playing if we knew what was going to happen."
And then he says something even deeper:
"It is the unknown that defines our existence. We are constantly searching, not just for answers to our questions, but for new questions."
In that moment, Sisko isn’t just explaining baseball he’s explaining life.
Life isn’t about knowing the outcome before you begin. It isn’t about certainty, control, or a perfectly mapped-out path.
It’s about throwing one pitch after another, adapting, learning, and discovering.
That’s what makes life exciting. It’s not just about answers—it’s about new questions.
But There is Danger of a World Without Questions.
In today’s world, questions seem to be under attack. More and more, it feels like people don’t want to explore the unknown anymore. They don’t want curiosity. They don’t want the challenge of navigating uncertainty. What they want is certainty, sides, and simple narratives. If you ask a question—especially about history, justice, or how we should move forward as a society—you might not get an answer.
Instead, you might get attacked. People assume that if you’re asking a question, you must already have an agenda. Or worse, that you must have bad intentions for even wanting to explore the subject in the first place. But what happens to discovery when we stop asking? What happens to progress if curiosity is replaced with fear?
What happens to humanity if we no longer allow space for people to think out loud, to explore new ideas, to step into the unknown without already knowing the outcome? The moment we stop asking questions, we stop learning. And the moment we stop learning, we stop growing.
Michael Jackson, 1993, and the Quiet Power of Positivity.
At the 1993 Super Bowl, Michael Jackson didn’t begin his halftime performance with a song. Instead, he stood there. Completely still. For two full minutes. No explosions. No screaming. No fighting. Just… silence.
He didn’t demand people listen. He didn’t force a message. He simply stood there, letting the weight of the moment settle in. And when he finally did perform, it wasn’t about conflict or division—it was about bringing people together.
🎵 Heal the World. 🎵 Black or White. 🎵 We Are the World.
Jackson understood that music, like conversation, can be a way to unite rather than divide. It can open the door to dialogue instead of forcing people into corners. His performance wasn’t about making one side feel victorious and another feel defensive, it was about transcending the sides altogether. But in today’s world, it feels like entertainment isn’t about unity anymore.
It’s about provoking, fighting, and stirring controversy.
And if you don’t pick a side, if you don’t subscribe to the outrage, then suddenly—you’re seen as part of the problem.
How my own Questions Led to my Survival and Innovation.
When I was diagnosed with an astrocytoma, a brain tumor that could have completely altered my future, I quickly realized something terrifying: I couldn’t even understand my own diagnosis.
The medical world, something that should have been guiding me, felt like a maze with no clear answers. That’s when I created AstroCare Companion.
I built it for myself, not to cure anything, but to simply help me understand. Now, AstroCare Companion is public with ChatGPT, allowing others to gain the same clarity and insight that helped me. And something strange happened. This is when the fear started to fade as more people began using AstroCare Companion, confirming that knowledge is the key to empowerment. Because understanding is powerful. And something else changed too, the way I saw the doctors who had once terrified me.
I still remember the coldness of my first neuro-oncologist, the way she delivered her prognosis like she was reading a statistic, not talking to a person. But after everything I learned through AstroCare Companion, about my condition, about medicine, and about the limitations even doctors have, I don’t just feel anger toward her anymore. I feel pity.
Because I now realize she didn’t understand either.
And if someone that trained, that experienced, and that deeply embedded in the medical world could still fail to understand something so human… Then what else are we missing because we aren’t asking the right questions?
The Death of Questions and the Rise of Manufactured Outrage.
The truth is, the world isn’t built to encourage questions anymore. It’s built to discourage them. To distract us. To divide us. To make us feel instead of think—because emotions can be manipulated. The system isn’t interested in exploration or curiosity—it’s interested in control. And that’s never more obvious than in modern entertainment.
But here’s the thing:
They can’t stop everyone from thinking. They can’t stop everyone from asking questions. And if enough of us reject the manufactured outrage, if enough of us choose curiosity over compliance, if enough of us refuse to let the system tell us how to feel, Then maybe, just maybe, we can build something better.
A world where questions aren’t feared. Where history isn’t erased. Where discovery isn’t discouraged. A world where, instead of being told what to think..
