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Digging Deeper

TTool · Digging Deeper

By , Editor · · What’s Next

The explanation sounds plausible. Everyone nodded. But the same problem keeps surfacing in different forms, and you're starting to suspect you've never actually understood it.

Digging Deeper is an inquiry discipline that draws on several foundational ideas: Arie Kruglanski's work on premature closure — the human drive to accept the first reasonable answer and stop looking — and Chris Argyris's double-loop learning, which asks you to challenge the assumptions underneath the answer rather than just fixing what's on the surface. The practice maps closely to Rolfe et al.'s reflective framework: What? So What? Now What?

A four-stage progression numbered 01 to 04, labelled notice, ask anyway, listen, and capture, each with a short note, and a marked "comfortable stopping point."
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“I've been asked to launch something and I don't know what users actually need.”

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