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Why You Need to Always Be Questioning YourselfWe should always be asking: Why am I doing this? And can I do it better?

ByJason Feifer

This story appears in theApril 2018issue of雷竞技手机版.Subscribe »

Nigel Parry

Iwant to tell you about the time I admitted I didn't know what I was doing. When I realized I wasn't the right man for the job, and I started asking uncomfortablequestionsabout my role here atEntrepreneur --问题我peers might scold me for asking. And then I looked to an unlikely ally for help.

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It all started when I asked,Am I doing something simply because that's the way it's always been done? This is, after all, the question allentrepreneursask themselves. I write about it all the time. But in practice, asking this question isn't easy. It requires us to look critically at things we may not have realized were broken, like wandering through a mansion to examine every floorboard. It is, frankly, an exhausting question to ask. It's hard to even know where to start. And once you find something to improve, it's not always clear how to fix it.

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