A More Beautiful Question: The Power Of Inquiry To Spark Breakthrough Ideas (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
WOW! This was the best book I read in 2014! I have already bought three more copies to give to friends, and plan to buy some more to give to my child's teachers. This book provides a framework for coming up with powerful questions that have the ability to make improvements in your life and business. It was extremely well laid out and I really thought the index at the rear of the book was super interesting in that it provided an index of questions as well as topics! Well done! There are lots of real life examples given and the flow of the book is quite easy in that I had about 3/4 of the book finished in one - two hour flight.This book is definitely on my re-read list for 2015. Humans are naturally wired to seek simple cause and effect stories. If A then B. If we change A this way then B changes that way.Unfortunately, most of the world isn't that way, whether it's the natural world, our culture or (to the greatest extent) with the relationships between people. Situations are much more nuanced, more complex, and much less predictable than we think, but because we don't have time (or knowledge) to reflect on everything we encounter in the world to that depth, we tend to just simplify. Simplifying isn't a problem, until you forget that you're simplifying. That's where questioning - the heart of this book - becomes valuable. To truly understand something, to explore the boundaries of what is and what might be, requires backing up and looking at something from a different perspective. That might be more general, more specific, from a different worldview...there are dozens of ways to do this. However what they all have in common is that they question the status quo - the current perception of the current situation.Berger takes the idea of questioning and tries it from just about every angle. Why you would ask questions, how to ask them, how to come up with good questions, what to do with good ones when you find them...all very good and actionable advice on how to approach learning and doing creatively.The real message of the book - and one that have come to wholeheartedly embrace in my own life - is that the questions are more important than the answers. Questions and uncertainty are what drive us to learn, to create, to experiment, and to improve.
What do You think about A More Beautiful Question: The Power Of Inquiry To Spark Breakthrough Ideas (2014)?
Especially the sections on Questioning in Business, and Questioning for Life...
—sargal722
I loved the book. Need to revisit after some time. Great inspiration
—janaye
I just loved this book. Provocative. Energizing!
—viviannnnx33
Thought provoking. Why tell when you can ask? .
—Beth
