Quest Questions Vs. the Head Nazis

Can you really order your brain around?  
Can you really just tell your brain to learn and get the results you want? 
Can you imagine how anybody would do that? 
Would you like to be able to order your brain to learn?

Where would you look for answers to these questions?  In a text book?  In a Google search?   Of course not.  The best you could find there is somebody else’s answer.  About somebody else’s brain.

These are examples of quest questions.  Quest questions are not like the questions you have to answer to show other people what you know.  They are questions that your brain can use to find things that it wants to know. 

Here are some well-known kinds quest questions:
Riddles,
Puzzles,
Trivia questions,
Logical paradoxes,
Problems starting with “How do I…” 

Quest questions lead to self-managed learning.  If somebody gives you a riddle, you do not try call up the Head Nazis to order you brain to solve it.  And if you do solve the riddle, you will not have to memorize the solution.  You will just remember it. 

You learn more from the question than you do from the answer.

Now try another quest question.  Does anyone use quest questions instead of studying?  From the outside, using quest questions looks just like studying.   But if they work the same as with that riddle, quest questions will be easier than studying.  Would that be worth knowing about?

Maybe you just thought of a problem starting with “How do I… find out whether a person is using quest questions for studying?”  That would be another quest question, wouldn’t it?