Why

Preliminary list of standard 'Why' questions.

• Why are you doing this?
• Why is it necessary to solve this problem?
• Why do you want to solve it?
• Why don’t you want to solve it?
• Why do you have to solve it and not someone else?
• Why is this situation a problem?
• Why do you view it as a problem and not an opportunity?
• Why doesn’t it go away?
• Why would someone else want to solve it?
• Why might someone else not want to deal with this situation?
• Why is it easy to solve?
• Why is it hard to solve?
• Why hasn’t it been dealt with? What’s holding you back?
• Why else instead of the known reasons for solving this problem?
• Why could you eliminate the reasons this situation is a problem?
• Why would you want to combine things?
• Why would you want to change, adapt, or improve things?
• Why can the reasons be overstated or understated?
• Why can the reasons be rearranged?
• Why would you want to move in an opposite direction?