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The Why Game
Why Game
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If you know any annoying small kid, or if you were once an annoying small kid yourself

(I was!), you will be familiar with the why game. If you are not, here’s how it works.

Annoying small kid asks you a question, you answer, then he/she asks “Why?”. Every
time you answer he/she asks “Why?” again and again and again until you run out of

answers.

The point of this is to make you realise that today in this online era with plethora of
gizmos to use, we have somewhere lost the annoying kid who asks why? Either we have

lost the curiosity, or we think it is not cool anymore to be a curious child/adult.

To flex the muscles of your grey matter, lets see how to start “Thinking deeply about

simple things”. This is a simple technique, you take a simple idea and make it more

complex and harder, because the toughest problems in life are not when things get
complicated but it’s the other way around, it’s when things get simpler. Take for

example, a circle, the simplest shape of all in one dimension, in fact if you dig deeper and

add more dimensions, it will still be the simplest of all shapes but if you study its
properties you will be amazed by the complexity of it even in one dimension. Have you

ever wondered why such a simple shape has such complex properties?

So, to think deeply about simple things one ought to ask two questions:

1. Why : “Why is this the case?” and then try to find the answer to it and then again ask

“Why?” and again and again till you get to a point of no return or to a point where rules
and laws don’t apply. Which now forms the basis of the second question.
#WHY

2. What if… : People will tell you that this is how things work in life and that this is the
unbreakable law. Now is the perfect time to unleash your inner annoying small kid and

ask, “What if...” and see the possibilities and answers which unravels along the way.

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