GeniesLoki

I don't really know why I'm better at asking questions than most other people (that is, itself, an interesting question). Maybe it's native curiosity? It's probably at least partly trauma grounded. Confusing things feel unsafe and figuring out the right questions helps with that.

Another way to cultivate question asking skills is to help your friends debug their emotions by asking them clarifying questions. I've done that a lot (which is totally not trauma grounded at all I just want everybody to be happy and love me for it perfectly normal instinct).

Totally-just-jokes-because-I'm-very-healthy-and-untraumatised aside, question asking is a really useful skill and it's kinda weird that nobody teaches you to do it.

Here's an exercise I like: Pick a random object in your environment and write a couple pages of observation about it. There's a follow up you can do: What more is there to learn about this object? e.g. it's history, what it is it made of, etc. Can you come up with 100 questions?

I'm not quite sure how to end this thread. Is there anything else you'd like to know?

How to motivate most people to train this prescription?

Gosh, I don't know. I probably wouldn't try directly - I'd see if there was something more specific they wanted to do that it would be useful for (it's useful for a lot of things) and try to signpost how to get better at it in that context?

That sounds like guiding the motivated. I do face the similar question.