Daring to Ask

Are You Brave Enough to Confront the Uncomfortable Questions Shaping Your Destiny?

Gholamreza Zare
3 min readApr 3, 2024

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Oh, the awkward dance of dodging those pesky, uncomfortable questions. It’s like when you’re at a family gathering, and that one aunt — who somehow missed the memo on personal boundaries — asks why you’re still single. You laugh, you deflect, you suddenly find the potted plant in the corner of the room utterly fascinating. We’ve all been there, right? But let’s zoom out from the agony of family interrogations and wade into the broader, murkier waters of our professional and personal growth. It’s here, in these depths, that the genuinely uncomfortable questions lurk — those nagging, gnawing queries that we shove to the back of our minds like last year’s taxes.

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You see, I’ve discovered a secret. This not-so-magic bean can grow into something extraordinary if we’re brave enough to plant it. This bean? The Uncomfortable Question. It’s not the polite, surface-level fluff that fills up space in conversation. No, it’s the gritty, gnarly stuff that digs deep and unearths truths we might not be ready to face. Why? Because, let’s face it, staring down the barrel of a question like “Why are we doing this?” or “What if we’re wrong?” feels akin to opening Pandora’s box — a whirlwind of chaos and accountability we’d rather keep tightly sealed.

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Gholamreza Zare

Tech enthusiast & writer on a journey of self-improvement and software engineering. Reach me at ghrzarea@gmail.com. Explore more: https://amazon.com/author/zare