Fortunately you don’t need a time travel machine or a guru to tap into the transformative power of questions. Every person on earth is born naturally curious, and mining the depths of our own curiosity can lead to a wealth of wisdom. Journaling and freewriting are powerful ways to harness that power for any purpose you wish, whether that's solving a perplexing problem, finding your way through the maze of life, or untangling your thoughts as you write a memoir.
As
you write, you may often find yourself wondering some version of, “Why
does this keep happening?” or “What’s really going on?” or “How else
could I go about this?” Listen to that small inner voice, and write down
the question, then without further thought, start writing the answer.
For example, you might ask yourself the question, “Why am I so stuck?”
You might be startled to watch an intuitively obvious answer emerge from
your pen or fingers: “Because I don’t really want to be doing this in
the first place. I’m only doing it because Grunterman will have a fit if
I don’t and . . . .”