The author | Liu Xuemin
When you know that the "Nine Houses Of Self-Questioning and Self-Answering Method" can help you concoct the required writing materials, then you must also know another point, how to ask yourself? How to ask good questions.
Asking and answering oneself, anyone will, but the quality of the question and the quality of the answer varies from person to person and varies.
The quality of the questions and answers is different, and the quality of the material obtained is also very different, which in turn leads to the quality of the articles written.
Therefore, whoever can ask a good question and answer it beautifully will be able to possess high-quality material.
Takuro Yamaguchi mentions two concepts in the book "The Nine-Palace Grid Writing Method", which are specifically designed to solve the problem of asking questions.
One is the "basic problem" and the other is the "shovel problem".
The basic questions, which collect basic information related to the topic, only lead to "objective facts" and may lack interest. Let me give you an example.
Like what:
Ask yourself 1: How are you feeling today?
Self-A1: Ok.
Ask yourself 2: Is it more happy, or is it more unhappy?
Answer 2: Have more fun.
Ask yourself 3: What are the happy things, say it and I will listen to it, and I will also be happy with you.
Self-answer 3: The design plan I made passed, and Xiao Liu repaid the five thousand yuan owed to me.
This is the basic problem, simply providing information and telling objective facts. If you write an article like this, it is very boring, and the reader must not like to read it.
So what is the shovel problem?
In short, like a shovel digging dirt, once you feel which issue is more important, valuable, interesting, and interesting, you dig deeper and expand the topic.
The specific approach is to ask a few more questions around a point, from multiple angles and levels, and ask questions that interest you or that you think the reader should be interested in.
Let me give you an example.
Self-answer 3: Last night stayed up late to do the design plan passed, the boss also praised me, said that the next one is also handed over to me to do; when the lunch stop, there is just one parking space, I just parked in, no delay; Xiao Liu repaid the five thousand yuan borrowed from me last month...
Ask yourself 4: What makes you happiest?
Self-answer 4: The plan has passed.
Ask yourself 5: Is it because I have been appreciated by my boss, or because my ability has been affirmed?
Self-answer 5: All of them.
Ask yourself 6: If the boss is not sure, will you be disappointed in yourself?
Self-answer 6: No, I will be very disappointed in the boss.
That's the shovel problem.
The shovel question is asked more specifically and deeply, and it generally leads to answers such as three views and feelings, which can directly hit people's hearts.
Now it is clear to us that the basic question is asked of "facts" and that its answer is fixed, while the shovel problem varies greatly depending on the perspective of the problem and the personal feelings.
Therefore, the basic problem is to collect information, and the shovel problem is to expand the topic.
The quality of an article depends largely on the shovel problem and its answers.
Then, when using the "Nine Palace Grid Self-Questioning and Self-Answering Method", everyone can try to ask more specific and in-depth questions, and the more specific and in-depth the questions, the more specific and deep the answers can be.
In other words, the level of questioning determines the quality of the answer.
If you want to get high-quality material, you must first learn to ask good questions, and if the questions are good, the answers can be good. And to ask good questions, you need to have a good shovel.
A good shovel is a high-quality question.
You have to keep your heart in hand, first ask yourself what you are interested in, what you think is valuable and worth writing, and then you must also think in a different position, believing what the reader may want to see and what you love to see.
Only by writing according to their own preferences and touching the reader's mind, the articles written are not only loved by themselves, but also by more readers.
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