5 habits of data-driven people

The world is filled with experts and thought leaders claiming to have the answers, but data-driven people don’t tend to be in that crowd. Instead, data-driven people make a habit of asking questions. Not only do they ask lots of questions, but they also ask good questions.

History is filled with data people who solved interesting problems because of their ability to ask questions others didn’t even think of asking. Albert Einstein had questions about what would happen if you were in an elevator in space, and that led to the theory of relativity. George Washington Carver invented crop rotation and then, upon questioning what to do with the new-found overabundance of peanuts, came up with 300 uses for the crop. They never could have encountered these solutions if they hadn’t first come up with interesting, novel questions. (Photo credit: iStock)