“Questions” , this is yet another awesome Practical Powerful Tool. Everyone already use this but on auto pilot, and not
to it’s fullest extent.
I use this most , while writing articles or Animation Story writing Lessons or this Career in Animation series. Or any project that
I create for months or weeks. or for anything.
In communication its really crucial.
Do you remember at the end of Power of Precision, I Have used Questions.
See there are some important things for using Questions, and I’m going to discuss those.
You know the coolest phrase ever , ASK And You shall Receive ..
Questions are promoters of the same.
Most important thing about Questions is THE KIND OF QUESTION YOU ASK , SAME KIND OF ANSWER YOU GET.
Mark these words.
If you ask Negative Question – You will get Negative Answer
If you ask Generalized Question – Generalized Answer
Precise Question – Precise Answer.
Practical Question – Practical Answer.
If you ask ,
“Why I’m so bad at drawing ?”
Your brain might come up with like , I always suck at drawing from first,
I don’t have it as born skill
Or
“How come all Animation institutes are money Making machines?”
Those are the Negative Questions chances are highly likely that you will get constructive answer.
See its not what’s wrong or right , the brain comes up with answer that we asked for.
We have answer for every question we ask .
For example,
How come people are so mean ?
Brain will come up with all the possible incidences in past where people had been mean to us
same way on the other side
How come people are so generous and helpful ?
Brain will come up with all the possible past experience of generous people.
Creating and asking question so that it will help us is most important thing and its easier and Fun too.
See if we
Ask More Constructive
More Precise
More Practical
Question
we will get
Answer that will be
More Constructive
More Precise
More Practical.
See if
WE ASK NEW QUESTION WE WILL GET NEW ANSWER.
World’s most awesome breakthroughs are the result of New Outstanding Question.
You know classic Newton’s Example of Apple.
One day someone came along thought , “wait a minute , cartoons are not just to laugh at and not just for children
how can I show that they have deep emotions , and they can touch viewers heart than anything has ever before?”
And we got emotional when we saw that Dwarfs are crying near Princess Snow White who has been poisoned.
If someone is producing outstanding results consistently , then he’s consciously or unconsciously asking more quality
questions consistently.
All day we are asking and answering questions unconsciously.
Most of the times we have pattern of asking questions that doesn’t serve us well.
For example ,
If something worst happened what would be your first question?
That is your one of Default question which will decide what you going to do.
So how to frame the question so that it will be helpful ?
1. Trying to be as much Constructive as possible .
2. being more precise
3. More of questions like
HOW CAN I
Expand
Grow
Create
Learn
Utilize
“How” questions are help to practical steps.
That does not mean Why and What are not useful
If you are studying Live reference for animation.
Why Motion occurs this way?
What moves first and how force transfers?
In order to create the same motion what specific parts need to paid more attention?
4. Creating chain of Questions and making better ,more precise every time until we get what exactly we want.
adding more and more clauses
Don’t go like this will not work ,
make question every time better and better.
If possible always do it one paper writing the questions and improving them.
And have fun.
I am going to give couple of examples
See if you ask this question
In these upcoming two months,
How can I do the research for Career in Animation and learn about animation ?
You can add more to it .
How can I do the research for Career in Animation and learn about animation
and help someone doing the same ?
Even more
How can I do the research for Career in Animation and learn about animation
and help someone doing the same ?
And how can I earn some money ?
Even more
How can I do the research for Career in Animation and learn about animation
and help someone doing the same ?
And how can I earn some money ?
How can I lose weight ?
You might say , Naah that’s weird .
believe me , you might will come up with awesome answer, just think about it.
For losing weight ,
May be you will realize that You can go for walk/run and listen to the Animation Podcast, daily for 1 hour.
You can make it even better
How can I do the research for Career in Animation and learn about animation
and help someone doing the same ?
And how can I earn some money ?
How can I lose weight ?
and also how can I improve my drawing skills ?
What are the 3 ways I could do that just by investing 2-4 hours daily ?
And
You know you can make it more precise , what drawing skill , what exactly about animation ,
How much money ,
How much weight
and if you keep asking question , you will definitely come up with the Answer.
While asking questions to self or others follow these steps .
Another Example is .
Why India doesn’t have good quality Animation Education ?
That’s not the question you are looking for
Your question should be something like this
” How can I create(or be part of ) a system and resources through which I will be able to learn and improve my animation skills ,
Get quality feedback , learn new animation skills and improve consistently ?”
And you can add all precise details that I haven’t added.
Instead of
Why I can’t draw ?
One should ask ,
How can I develops outstanding drawing skills ?
How can I get rid of belief that I can’t draw ?
What precise steps I must consistently take ,
What books or resources will be necessary?
How can I improve my strokes ?
What is the one thing that will make huge difference in my drawing ?
What are the steps while drawing anything ?
What the first and must thing one must do before drawing anything?
How can I draw like (any particular drawing style)?
How can I show Force in the drawing?
Now add more precision to the Questions
Define drawing skills means , exactly what
Books for what particular part of drawing
See You can make it more and more clear.
One of the most important is our Default Question / Questions . .
The question we ask consistently.
Some people’s is ” Why Me? ” or ” How come this always happened to me”
Outstanding people have Outstanding Default Question.
They ask consistently , How can I make this better ? , How can I use this?
The final Example , We all can relate to ..
Shawn Kelly (Awesome Animator at ILM , One of the Founders of Animation Mentor )
When he was animation student, the question he consistently ask before doing anything , (his default question )
was
Doing this, will it take me one step closer to my dream of being in ILM or not ?
And he said , ” If it didn’t, I didn’t do it , and If it did , I did , even if I didn’t want to do it “
See Outstanding guys ask OUTSTANDING QUESTIONS.
So this is Questions tool..
P.S.
One day I Happened to meet Kiran for 3 hours , and we decided to have fun , Aim was to visit an Animation institute for inquiry but create something awesome article for Bramhaa.
We sat in garden , brain stormed all possible questions , our aim was to have at least 50 inquiry questions ,
we sat for hour , and came up with I guess 33 or something questions.
Obviously that institute people were blown away by the list of questions , and this is how we created article
“Choosing the perfect Animation Institute “
