June 16, 2008

I didn’t ask what you know. I asked what you think. ~ PowerPhrase

Filed under: PowerPhrases by Meryl Runion |

A participant at one of my seminars last week shared that he would get his kids in the habit of thinking for themselves, problem solving and sharing their opinions by asking them what they think. If they responded that they didn’t k now, he would tell them,

I didn’t ask what you know. I asked what you think,

The point of this expression is that people often think they need to have “the right answer” to speak, but they don’t. We don’t have to know for our thoughts to have value.