Anyone who's spent 15 minutes with a small child has most likely experienced this scenario: Child: What are you doing Adult: Changing the oil in the car. [Or any multitude of mundane tasks. Child: WhyAdult: Because the car won't run without oil. Child: WhyAdult: Machines need certain things to run properly. Child: "WhyThe "W word or its friends, who, what, when and how could easily get thrown around another 10 or 15 times during this conversation.When your children were young, it seemed like they asked 1,000 questions a day. Research shows it wasn't that many - more like 200 per day. But those questions are crucial to their development.Turns out we lose our curiosity as we grow older and stop asking so many questions. The average college student asks only 20 questions per day. It's a shame we aren't asking more questions. If you walk around the greenhouse and ask the proper questions,you'll find out a lot about production processes, poten-tial inefficiencies and best of all, your employees' ideas and observations.
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