There is value in asking yourself challenging questions even when—perhaps especially when—you don’t have a ready answer. Just thinking about a difficult question—a tough decision, a creative problem that needs solving, a change you may want to make in your life—begins to put your mind to work on that issue and can soon start to yield insights and greater clarity. So the trick is to become more comfortable living with a question, working on it, learning from it—and knowing that you don’t need to have an answer right away.
