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What is the biggest question in life?
The biggest question for most must be, “What is the purpose of life?” A fundamental purpose of earth life is personal growth and attainment. Consequently, there must be times of trial and quandary to provide opportunity for that development. For as long as human beings have inhabited the planet Earth, we have been searching for answers to the same three big questions: (1) Where did we come from? (2) Is there life after death? (3) What is the meaning of life? The Four Great Questions of Life: Who Am I? Where Do I Come From? What Is My Purpose? Where Am I Going?
What is a good big question?
Effectively, Big Questions are essential questions that: are open-ended; have no simple “right answer” and no “yes/no” answers. are meant to be investigated, argued, looked at from different points of view. encourage active “meaning making” by the learner about important ideas. The Three Big Questions strategy challenges readers to annotate in the margins by marking passages that answer the questions: What surprised me?, What did the author think I already knew?, and What challenged, changed, or confirmed what I already knew?. The Three Big Questions strategy challenges readers to annotate in the margins by marking passages that answer the questions: What surprised me?, What did the author think I already knew?, and What challenged, changed, or confirmed what I already knew?. The Big6 is a process model of how people of all ages solve an information problem. o What is my current task? o What are some topics or questions I need to answer? o What information will I need? o What are all the possible sources to check? o What are the best sources of information for this task? Open-ended questions begin in very specific ways. Open-ended questions begin with the following words: why, how, what, describe, tell me about…, or what do you think about… “Why is there something instead of nothing?” has been sometimes labeled as the “biggest question of all.”