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Are you tackling a new and difficult problem at work? Recently promoted and trying to both understand your new role and bring a fresh perspective? Or are you new to the workforce and seeking ways to meaningfully contribute alongside your more experienced colleagues? If so, critical thinking — the ability to analyze and effectively break down an issue in order to make a decision or find a solution — will be core to your success. And at the heart of critical thinking is the ability to formulate deep, different, and effective questions.

Consider this: Clayton M. Christensen was perhaps the greatest management thinker of the last 30 years. His “How Will You Measure Your Life” is a Harvard Business Review bestseller and one of the five best articles on personal development I’ve read, and his theories on innovation and disruption changed business. But my most memorable encounter with Christensen was a talk at Harvard Business School where he discussed his own approach to his time as an MBA student decades before.

He said HBS was where he learned to ask great questions. Impressed with his classmates, he would carry a notebook to class and write down the most insightful questions other students asked. He’d then go home and reflect on how and why the students had formulated them. Ever curious, Christensen laid the foundation for his future insights by first studying the process by which people formulated their best queries.

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Most people underestimate how our small daily actions shape our future. They think that big life changes lead to huge differences in our lives, but they don’t pay much attention to what they do every single day.

Yet, the truth is, what we do (or don’t do) day after day determines how we feel and what we end up creating (or destroying).

Big decisions like if (and who) you marry, where you live, which job you take, and whether you have kids or not can indeed change the course of your life. But these decisions are mostly once-in-a-lifetime.

The tiny decisions we make day after day, however, come with smaller risks, yet, they can have an equally significant impact on the trajectory of our lives.

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The shooting at Robb Elementary occurred the morning of the school’s second to last day of the semester. An 18-year-old gunman, who according to officials had shot his grandmother and crashed his vehicle near the campus, “was shooting everybody” when he entered the building, which housed second, third, and fourth-graders.

“Once again, we have tragically proven that we are failing to be responsible for the rights our freedoms grant us,” McConaughey wrote in a statement just after midnight that appeared on his social media platforms. 

He said that people need to “rearrange our values” so that people can find common ground “above this devastating American reality that has tragically become our children’s issue.” 

“The true call to action now is for every American to take a longer and deeper look in the mirror, and ask ourselves, ‘What is it that we truly value? How do we repair the problem? What small sacrifices can we individually take today, to preserve a healthier and safer nation, state, and neighborhood tomorrow?'” he wrote. “We can’t exhale once again, make excuses, and accept these tragic realities as the status quo.”

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