When I'm asking a question, the last thing I want to do is answer it.
A question comes at a dead-end of a line of thinking: I do not know what to do.
The job is not to pierce a hole through the wall.
The job is to backtrack and take a different, clear path.
The job is to revise the conditions in which the question was posed.
Almost every question is based on false premises.
Undo the premises and the problem goes away.