3 Reasons Why We Don't Ask Meaningful Questions

Asking questions is vital to relationships, organizations, ministry, leadership, marriage, and family life. Quite simply questions involve every aspect of our life and we fail to ask meaningful questions 90% of the time. Most of our conversations are not spent asking questions, instead listening to ourselves talk or listening to someone else talk while we are actually thinking about what we are going to say once they stop talking.

I suspect that there are several reasons people do not ask meaningful questions. Here are my top three reasons we do not ask meaningful questions. 

1. Selfish: I highlighted this above, but I believe the majority of the time we are thinking about our own needs and desires and rarely slow down to think about others. 
2. Presence: We have become addicted to checking email, Facebook, and the like that when we our in a situation that calls us to ask questions our hearts and mind have a hard time slowing down enough because we are not really present or in the moment. 
3. Change: The final reason we do not ask meaningful questions is because questions can facilitate needed change and we are fearful of change. Often times asking questions can come across challenging and threatening. However, that is another post about how to ask meaningful questions in a humble manner.

What would you add about why we fail to ask meaningful questions?