Extraordinary people are just ordinary people who are thinking differently 

How Answers can lead to Questions 

• If it takes a lot of courage to admit you don’t know all the answers, just imagine how hard it is to admit you don’t even know the right question.. But if you ask the wrong question, you are almost guaranteed to get the wrong answer. 
• Asking “what if … ?” is a great way to see more and delve deeper. One shouldn't be ashamed to ask basic questions, even those that the other person may consider as 'stupid' or questions to which you may feel embarrassed about not already knowing the answers. 
• Sometimes when your attempt fails to resolve one issue, you might discover that you have actually found an imaginative answer to a totally different question. That is, your bad solution to one problem might lead to a different project altogether—a project suggested by the accidental virtues of your mostly bad attempt. 
• What’s the real question? Sadly, many people spend their entire lives focusing on the wrong questions. They may pursue money, when they really want happiness. They may pursue the respect of people whose favour is really not worthy of being sought. So before you succumb to the temptation to immediately spring to work on the answer, always stop and first ask, “What’s the real question here?” Often the question that seems obvious may not be the question that leads to effective action.
• Constantly thinking of questions is a mind-set with tremendous impact. You become more alive and curious, because you are actively engaged while you are listening and living. You become more open to ideas, because you are constantly discovering places where your assumptions are exposed.

How to learn from our 'Mistakes'

• Seeing a mistake as possibly a correct answer to a different question puts our thinking on its head. We look at a mistake not as a wrong answer, but instead as an opportunity to ask, “What is the question to which this is a correct answer?”
• Two reactions to mistakes. So when you see or make a mistake, you have at least two actions to take: (1) let the mistake lead you to a better attempt, and/or (2) ask whether the mistake is a correct answer to a different question.

Embracing Change

• If the ability to change is part of who you are, then you are liberated from worries about weaknesses or defects, because you can adapt and improve whenever you like. Always remember, the definition of insanity is: Doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome - in other words, refusing to change, refusing to embrace a learning mindset, adapting a fixed mindset etc.  
• Don't be afraid to change any part of yourself—you'll still be there, only better. To become more skilful and successful, you might think in terms of altering what you do, rather than thinking in terms of how well you do it. Instead of thinking, "Do it better," think, "Do it differently." 
• The unchangeable mind is a closed mind. The result in politics is a calcified lack of innovation and flexibility-gridlock. Doubt can be unsettling, but it does not have to be. You can turn doubt into a comfortable and insightful guide along the road to true change.
• If you are open to new ideas, and you allow yourself to follow your changing opinions and passions, they will lead you in directions you did not originally expect to go.