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The Key To Life? Ask More Questions

George Kalantzis
4 min readAug 3, 2020

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Photo by Emily Morter on Unsplash

Toddlers are fascinating humans. They can figure out anything in life without having stories attached by asking questions and being persistent.

If you are a parent or have ever been around a toddler for the day, you know how many questions they can ask in any given moment, and how persistent they can be.

I used to get annoyed at the questions my little girl would ask, but over time I have found her way of asking questions to be cute, and also something that led me to believe that if my daughter can get what she wants by asking more questions, then maybe questions could be the key to a more rewarding life.

We all want to feel loved, be successful, be happy, and healthier, yet many of us never ask the right kinds of questions to the struggles we face.

Because life becomes a chase, we seek to find surface-level answers to problems deep-rooted from our experiences growing up. When viewed from this perspective, we often become consumed by the stories we tell ourselves to prove our lives are great, even if we are lonely, depressed, overweight, careers we hate, or in relationships filled with resentment.

As we begin our journey deeper into life itself, fear becomes the creator of our story, and we attach our self-worth to the quality of our achievements unable to break free from the…

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George Kalantzis
George Kalantzis

Written by George Kalantzis

George is a professional storyteller, a dad to a sassy and adventurous eight year-old girl, and the author Of Nowhere To Go

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