From the course: Using Questions to Foster Critical Thinking and Curiosity
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Expectations vs. setting intentions
From the course: Using Questions to Foster Critical Thinking and Curiosity
Expectations vs. setting intentions
- When you ask a question, more times than not you're either seeking a specific answer or truly looking for clarification. The challenge lies in what you're expecting to hear versus your intention when asking the question. The difference between intention and expectation might sound subtle, but asking with an intention versus asking to set expectations can make a huge difference in your experience when asking a question. Expectations focus on future outcomes, whereas intentions focus on the process or things you plan to do in order to achieve those outcomes. Diving deeper, expectations is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as a strong belief that something will happen or be the case, or a belief that someone will or should achieve something. So an expectation has a success or failure attached to it depending upon whether that expectation is realized. When expecting something, we've already created a narrative about the result, how it's going to go, or how it should, must, have to be…
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