Luckily, though, when I used my next 90-minute allotment of free time to look into this question, I learned there's no need to worry.
Back when I practiced law for a living, a question I learned to ask myself while writing was, "So what?"—or, to phrase it more politely, "Why am I telling you this?" or "Why does this matter?' Maybe I learned it as an English major long before that.
This exercise reminds me of a question I learned from Mike Johnson, the retired CEO of Castrol, the global lubricants leader.
The question, I learned, is harder to answer than you might expect, principally because most corporate do-gooders approach their social good efforts with more of an eye toward impact on the community than on the firm.
The question I learned to ask myself is: "What do you want?" I heard it first from my dad.
But every time I ask that question, I learn something new.
Peppering him with questions, I learned that his wife, Mona Juul, was Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Norway Mission to the United Nations.
Among a list of moral issues and questions I learned to think more coherently about, I also learned a lot about project design/execution.
When I originally came up with this goal, I thought that I would be coming up with some grand paradigm changing question, but I found that the questions I learned to ask this summer were even more valuable.
In reading the answers to the two open-ended questions, I learned many interesting theories about Jodi and Travis' relationship and the killing - some quite plausible.
