Do You Know Everything You Want to Argue?

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In general is that a common quality of stories you had that you kind of don't really know like fully what it is until you start digging into it? I used to feel that if I knew everything that was a good sign and I've become more aware thatlike if you know everything you want to argue that's not such a good sign. Do you ever go down that dark road and find that you don't find it that you trust yourself to find something and then there's nothing there? Yes definitely or that it feels kind of like stale or it's just about do I have Like a genuine question? There's like something I'm trying to figure out that feels like then the story is

Rachel Aviv is a staff writer for The New Yorker. Her new book is Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us.

“I used to feel that if I knew everything, that was a good sign. And I've become more aware that if you know everything you want to argue, that's not such a good sign…. Do I have a genuine question? Is there something I’m trying to figure out? Then the story is worth telling. But if I don’t really have a question or if my question is already answered, then maybe that should give you pause.”

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