Untrap Your Expertise™

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Day 5: Surface the Questions You Ask

Reveal the questions you use to interpret what you notice.

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Shannon D. Smith 🪏
Aug 19, 2026
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Welcome to Day 5 !

Today, you will identify the questions you use to test assumptions, interpret clues, and decide what to do next.

Good questions carry expert knowledge

Expertise often appears in the quality and order of the questions a person asks.

Questions direct attention. They determine which evidence enters the conversation, which assumptions receive scrutiny, and which possibilities remain available.

With experience, some questions become internal. You may ask them silently, answer them from the available evidence, and move forward without noticing the sequence. Someone observing you sees the decision without hearing the inquiry that produced it.

Surfacing these questions begins to make your reasoning available to another person.

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