Introducing "Asking the Right Questions"

My gift for you on the second birthday of P2P

Two years ago today, I started

The Path to PhD — Advice From a Young Scientist

. Since then, I cannot stop second-guessing whether the things I write are useful for anyone else. The insight came when I recently had the chance to ask a question from executive coach Ed Batista¹. Now I am turning that into a gift to you, my readers.

For my dilemma of how I should reconcile my desire to pay forward all the help I got from my mentors despite my very limited experience, Ed told me that

coaching and/or mentorship is sometimes more about the questions, not the answers.

As a scientist, I love questions². Thus, I decided to experiment with a new part of the newsletter called "Asking the Right Questions". I plan to release these bits (irregularly) on Fridays.

1. Ed’s free The Art of Self-Coaching course is highly recommended

2. I will write about the role of questions in science later.