Up: [[Questioning]] Related: [[Feynman’s Dozen Question Prompts]] Created: 2024-09-11 Updated: 2026-09-08 To create your own version of [[Feynman’s Dozen Question Prompts]] pay attention to these three things: ### 1. Find Themes You Care About Some suggestions from Anne-Laure Le Cunff of [Ness Labs](https://nesslabs.com/favorite-problems) include: - topics that love to learn about - ideas you don’t quite understand - skills you wish you had - the big challenges in your field - recurring patterns in your life - aspects of society that puzzle you ### 2. Look for Links See if you can find connections between a couple of themes. Even better if the connections are cross-disciplinary. That will allow you to frame your question in the form of the relationship between the two. ### 3. Make Specific and Personal This ties to themes you care about. While I know that Feynman was brilliant, his questions leave me cold. Questions need to be meaningful to you, such as this one if you were a climatologist — “How can I make climate sexy instead of antagonistic?” Or this one if you’re starting a legacy project — “How do I honour the legacy of my ancestors?”