What is the Question-Driven Approach?

A new understanding of the mind

The mind feeds on questions. It requires questions to give it something to do. Life is the result of deliberate questions, for example,
  • What would life be like if I were free of limitations I have placed on myself?
  • What do I need to know in order to relate better with my daughter? 
  • How can I discern the truth about what is happening in the world? 
  • What will be the fastest way to the store at 4:30? And so on.
On the other hand, we all experience what Buddhists call the monkey mind—boring, unproductive or negative mental activity—which is the result of default questions, questions a person isn’t aware they are asking. For example:
  • What’s wrong with me? 
  • Who can I blame? 
  • Where is something that can hurt me?
  • What can keep me from feeling what I’m feeling? And so on.

Since questions play the deciding role in everything our minds do, improving Life is about becoming proficient in the art of feeding our minds deliberate questions.

The Question-Driven Approach™ offers a proven way of more effectively accessing the vast resource which is the mind when used the way it was designed.

The monkey mind is answering default questions.

This implies that if you don’t like what’s going on in your head, some default questions are being answered and it’s up to you to give your mind some new questions to search.

A person’s greatest resources are their intelligence and their imagination. The key to accessing them and taming the monkey mind lies in the person’s skill at giving their mind deliberate questions.

Mind/your mind/my mind has a question-driven operating system. 

The Question-Driven Approach™ offers a breakthrough in understanding how the mind operates, an understanding that offers relief for people experiencing boring, unproductive or negative mental activity that they find difficult to change. It also offers a breakthrough for those who want to be able to access more of their mind’s true resources for situations in everyday life.

QDA deflates common distractions and places the vast resources and creative power of a person’s mind under the control of questions which they themselves determine.