What are you noticing?

The other bit of Mike Cosper's review of Radiohead's album I noticed was this:

I have a friend who’s a pastoral counselor. In almost any situation, when he puts on his "counseling" hat, he opens the conversation by asking, "What are you noticing?" and follows that line of questioning with, "How are you processing that?" I think these are great questions to ask when we look at art in the wider world: What are the artist noticing, and how are they processing it?

Very good questions for all of life.