Okay, so we're still on the day of collaboration. And your third task for today is to draw the most out of people. And we're going to do that with a growth mindset and the Socratic method. So, if you are not familiar with the Socratic method, it is a method of teaching that was developed by Socrates. And the super nutshell version is that you're going to use a lot of questions to help get more thorough answers out of people and help them consider possibilities that maybe they haven't considered themselves. So in this, you are going to be the teacher.

Maybe you could think of yourself as a coach in this scenario. If you do not typically ask your team a whole bunch of questions, you may want to let them know ahead of time that you will be asking a lot of questions and they are just for clarification, and to help grow the ideas that you guys are working on. So you want to let your team know basically not to take this personally, you are not challenging them personally, we just want to challenge those ideas to become more full fledged. One of the important parts of the Socratic method is that you as the teacher or the coach, are taking a stance or a place of ignorance. And that's not in a bad way. What you need to think of is that you are not going to assume you know, the next line of thinking in somebody's thought process.

So instead of saying, oh, and kind of completing their thought, you want to be asking a question. So what happens next? So tell me more how that would work. Have you thought about A, B, or C, and I have a whole bunch of Socratic questions in your next lecture because I'm going to let you read about those For a little bit, but that is super super nutshell of what the Socratic method can do to help you in your collaboration. And using these questions can really help take you from a good idea to a great and a well developed idea.