“50 Jaw-Dropping Questions That Will Make You Rethink What ‘Dumb’ Really Means!”
No, I had a tragic grape juice accident when I was four and now it just grows this way.
I was showing a friend a telescope and pointing out all the constellations and planets I knew, and he legitimately asked me “Where’s earth?”.
Psychologist Paul E. Spector writes that “asking and answering questions can be an art and should be encouraged.” People are reluctant to ask questions because they don’t know what they don’t know, or think they know something when they actually don’t. A good instructor’s job, according to him, is to make people comfortable enough so they’re not afraid to ask stupid questions.
I worked at Yellowstone National Park in the early 2010s and one of the tourists, a French lady, came up and asked me when the animals were going to be brought out for people to see.
Used to be a whitewater raft guide. No end of dumb questions. One was “Do the rocks (in the river) go all the way to the bottom?” No, they’re those special floating rocks wtf.
Also, “do we get out where we started?” Implying the river goes in a circle, like an amusement park ride.
