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Some Questions Change When We Stop Trying to Solve Them
Some questions are solved by gathering information. Others become less useful when treated as ordinary puzzles.
A question can redirect attention without delivering a neat proposition. What assumptions become visible when our usual route to an answer is blocked? What do we notice when we cannot immediately categorize what we have been given?
Confusion is not automatically wisdom, and not every paradox is profound. The distinction is between a question seeking a piece of information and a question that changes the activity of looking.
Sometimes the useful response is to stop trying to solve faster and notice what the attempted solution has kept out of view.