Learn to ask meaningful questions

Learn to ask meaningful questions

Few remember what economic plan Jimmy Carter tried to sell in 1980. They remember the misery index, inflation and unemployment climbing together, and the hostages in Iran. What they don’t remember are the policy details, because one question cut through all of it.Ronald Reagan asked, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”That was it. Everything Carter wanted to argue for a second term had to pass through that question. Once it didn’t…