Questioning Insight

Questioning insight is Reg Revans's term, from his *L = P + Q* formula articulated in *ABC of Action Learning*, for the learning that emerges specifically from being asked probing questions about one's own situation by peers. Distinct from programmed knowledge (what the participant already knows or has been taught), questioning insight is the thinking that surfaces only when someone else asks the question. Action Learning's central claim is that in contexts of genuinely new problems — what Revans called "situations of puzzle" rather than "situations of difficulty" — questioning insight is what moves learning forward, not additional programmed knowledge. The Action Learning Set is the structural unit designed to produce questioning insight through disciplined peer questioning.