The Art Of Asking Questions | Dan Moulthrop | TEDxSHHS

CEO of The City Club of Cleveland gives his TEDx talk at Shaker Heights High School.

Dan Moulthrop is CEO of The City Club of Cleveland, the nation’s oldest continuously running free speech forum. He was a co-founder of The Civic Commons, a Knight Foundation project creating a social media environment designed for civil civic dialogue. Prior to that, he was the host of Sound of Ideas on 90.3 WCPN ideastream. Dan is also co-author, with Dave Eggers and Ninive Calegari, of the best-selling book Teachers Have it Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers (The New Press, 2005), which provided the basis for the 2011 documentary "American Teacher." He's an award winning local public radio host, a former high school teacher and a graduate of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. He lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio, with his wife and three children.

[TooSimple]

The Art of Asking Questions | Dan Moulthrop:

1.) Be Unafraid to ask questions
2.) Be Curious about an individual's experiences
3.) Try the Obvious Question as it can be the most important
4.) Words Matter to spark feelings in the conversation
5.) Strive for Empathy to understand experiences
6.) Be Informed on who you are interviewing
7.) Be Simple and ask "why?"
8.) Be Gracious for them giving you their time

[juliomiranda]

My lessons:
1- don't be afraid to ask
- ask for feelings, not "doing"
- ITS better to ask about what people feel instead of what people have do.
2 - be curious about the world
- be curious about the experience of people, about what they have felt
3- don't be afraid of make the obvious questions
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4- words matter
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5- emphaty
6- sometimes the best question is the simple question, like why

[themaangol]

Great tone, poise and delivery. But above all I learned that people want to talk about the experiences that shaped their lives. Thank you Dan Moulthrop!

[sengkeavideos]

Their answers is a gift to you. I never thought about it this way.

[TheRichSolution]

I liked the way you started off your talk and how a question lead to curiosity and then that led to learning!

[impresiostudio]

Thank you man
Love you
Doing great job
Keep doing it

[lennon_richardson]

*"Asking a good question is about executing the act of curiosity." - Dan Moulthrop*

[hepzibahandrew]

Thanks for sharing your experience with wisdom

[oursmallmajority]

This helped us improve our interview skills for our podcast. Thanks a bunch!

[onee]

1 Be unafraid
2 Be curious
3 Try the obvious question
4 Words matter
5 Strive for empathy
6 Be informed
7 Be simple
8 Be curious

[musingsandmusic]

I like this presentation- straight to the point, clear and accessible (not the typical Ted-pretense) , however, I like to argue that "be informed" kills the inquisitive nature and curiosity. I understand that it related to interviews and avoiding the "obvious", but in general an open mind, a degree of ignorance keeps questioning alive (and our minds too!)

[LeaLittleDanishGirl]

2:35 ____ 5:05 7:15 8:45 10:16 15:25 16:45 ____

[nielsontoo]

You can see Dan is used to ask questions. Speaking without an interlocutor is really challenging for him. I feel you! Very good content.

[lennon_richardson]

*Dan, what's it like to give such a good TED Talk?*

[Twisted_Code]

this video was recommended to me in the feedback my professor provided on an assignment.

[akshaysharma]

Impressive preparation & able to visualize the idea on the mind so what kind of questions are suitable & relevant. As asking questions is symbols of curiosity & better understanding of informative.


Happy to be the listener of such talk.

[RoyMontero]

Curiosity and the Art Of Asking Questions — Dan Moulthrop

"You cannot make a friend, you can only be a friend." — Roy Montero

[Monkhaus]

I think sometimes it's difficult to find the right questions, I'm working on a platform that will help people find and ask better questions.

[boya_]

It is said that the obvious question is usually the least asked due to its simplicity, nevertheless it's the simplicity that involves a question what makes it have a great meaning in itself . Whether it comes to an interview or a chit-chat, the use of rhetoric is always present, so much so that is considered the foundation for conveyinf a message objectively without actually having to communicate it directly. In this regard, in order to awaken interest in others one must first show that interest, for people connect better when one of the parties is understood through the other, and thus will be grateful and want to return the interest.

[michaelmoraga]

practical and interesting.... (if you don't know Studs Terkel...)