Be a breath of fresh air in a world of infinite distractions. When you ask questions, you make sure you understand the topic at hand to the best of your ability. This way, when you have to speak on the same topic with someone else, you have a clear perspective about your take on the issue. Knowledge is power. You can never have 'enough' knowledge. Asking dumb questions helps you view the same topic from different angles.
If you're being addressed on a certain topic at work, chances are that you'll have to put your knowledge to use sooner or later. When you avoid asking dumb questions, you don't fully understand the topic at hand, and this leads you to making mistakes.
Sometimes, the errors are small and can be easily rectified. Other times, when the mistakes are big, you can end up losing your job. When you ask silly questions that cross your mind, you become aware of the topic of discussion in its entirety. And the third and final point to raise is that judging things like questions is not beneficial in any way. Nathan DeWall and Brad J. Bushman Edmondson, A. Administrative Science Quarterly, 44 2 , Cloud and Data Platforms Find the right ambition level for your cloud transformation.
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My second-grade teacher would remind us of this to build our confidence with adults, who at that time could be a bit scary to us. But in the workplace, everyone is an adult. There should be an expectation that everybody will participate and select questions wisely.
In the workplace, there really are stupid questions. To spend a single second of thought or action on such questions is a complete waste of resources, period. Human behavior is simply not rational, which means there are often no answers to these questions.
Our users share their insights on this topic: That might be construed as presenting a personal judgment rather than a legitimate observation. What might seem "stupid" to one person could be meaningful to someone else. There are many reasons why a person may ask what you consider a stupid question.
The person may be shy and trying to make small talk. Some people just get nervous talking one-to-one with another person. Then there are some people who just don't think before they open their mouths. It's always wise to grit your teeth and be pleasant.
You never know why the person asked what you consider a stupid question in the first place. Also, the former poster gave a good answer in stating, that just because you feel it's a stupid question, it may well not be.
We generally ask questions to learn and if we feared asking stupid questions we might not learn as much. Some people have different ways of figuring out ideas.
They may understand the concept and the answer to that one question will make it all click. They may find the question humorous, like "Why don't cows have armpits? The person writing the question or answer might be very young years old and may not know how to ask an appropriate question. The person that asks a question might not be fluent enough in English to manage an entry into a search engine to find the answer to his question.
It is difficult at times for those with excellent English knowledge, so how can those who have English as a second language be expected to manage? Who decides what is stupid and what is not?
WikiAnswers caters to people from around the world, and so a question that may seem stupid to one person may be a useful question to another.
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