On Questions: A Little Yellow Booklet From Yellow

by Robert Poynton

A tiny, brief booklet that asks questions about questions.

Better questions are sought-after. But what is a good question? And are questions really what they are made out to be?

This booklet raises small questions to explore, follow, play with, hold, dwell on, or simply be with. It is not so much what a question is, but what a question does that matters. This booklet doesn't provide you with answers. But it does invite a response.

This is a booklet from Yellow (www.yellowlearning.org) – an online space of ongoing, generative and re-generative learning.

35 pages, Paperback

Published May 31, 2021

About the author

I live off grid in rural Spain, 3km outside a small town that no-one has heard of. My most recent book, 'Do - Pause', was shaped by this place and its rhythms - both natural and human. I continue to write about pause. I think we need constant reminding that our best ideas and best selves come from variation, not from being 'always on'. 'Do - Pause' received so much attention when it was published last year, that I also decided to create The Pause Project (for more information see: www.pauseproject.space).

'Do - Improvise' and 'Everything's an Offer', my two previous books, are both about improv and how the ideas and practices it rests on can help us in every day life and work. I believe that creating the conditions where good things can happen is more powerful than trying to control events or people. It is amazing to me that a body of ideas I first encountered nearly thirty years ago continue to be so helpful and so relevant.