Humble yourself, first and foremost. Realize, if you don't know the answer, that it's a good question and it is worth answering. Don't try to even think of what answer you could give without doing something to make sure. So, first, realize that it won't be the last time someone asks a question you don't know the answer to.
Then, check more than one source. compare answers that lean one way and answers that lean another. Even factual answers give way to opinionized versions, so be careful of what is right and wrong about right answers. Never give an answer that leaves a head scratching, especially since our affiliates are not face-to-face with us, in most cases.
Possibly give one that gives a questioner the motivation and ammunition to find out more for themselves. Often, a question comes not so much from a person who does not know how to choose from facts nor do research, but from someone who does not understand in which direction to take an inquiry.
Answers don't create life; answers stimulate life. The best way to answer a question is to ask your own, of yourself and others. Humble yourself.
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Humble yourself, first and foremost. Realize, if you don't know the answer, that it's a good question and it is worth answering. Don't try to even think of what answer you could give without doing something to make sure. So, first, realize that it won't be the last time someone asks a question you don't know the answer to.
Then, check more than one source. compare answers that lean one way and answers that lean another. Even factual answers give way to opinionized versions, so be careful
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