Some people often ask me, “Where do you get your ideas to write this blog?” A fair question, and I often dismiss it by saying: “I don’t know it, they just come to me…” when in fact I should say that in the final analysis, every unanswered thought that inhabits my mind pushes me to find more about it and, one thing leading to the other, this is how I research and discover something that I didn’t know well or that I just ignored.
Questions are the starting point for learning and discovery. As Albert Einstein said, the important thing is not to stop questioning and never lose a "holy curiosity".
Our questions identify what we don't know, creating a natural motivation to seek answers Does this make any sense?
Is this the essence of inquiry-driven learning: the idea that questions, especially the lingering, half-formed ones, are not obstacles but gateways. They tug at the edges of your awareness, nudging you toward discovery.
The fact that a thought remains unanswered suggests it’s still fertile. It hasn’t been dismissed or resolved, instead, it’s alive, waiting for attention. Rather than starting with answers, I often wonder, and one question leads to another, and very soon I’m following a thread that reveals connections I hadn’t anticipated.
This is perhaps how deep learning happens, not through linear instructions, but through exploration. This could also mirror how our brain works: it’s wired to resolve ambiguity. When a question lingers, the mind keeps returning to it, seeking patterns, insights, and closure. That’s why when I respond “I don’t know, they just come to me”, I might be telling the truth because the ideas do come to me, but only after my mind has been quietly working on them.
Now, you know the main source of my inspiration!
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