The Question Book: What Makes You Tick? by Mikael Krogerus

The Question Book: What Makes You Tick? Reviews

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  Sanjay Gautam

  Well it is not as deep and thoughtful as the blurb make it sound. Questions range from silly to outright nonsense. However, you may find some questions worthwhile which may reveal something you might be ignoring unconsciously.
  
  I cannot think it to be much effective, psychologically speaking. Overall not recommended.
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  Reem Al bairoute

  You have to keep this book in a hidden place
  It is like you have published all your secrets :p
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  Mahdi Aljamri

  كتاب جميل بين فترة وأخرى تستطيع كتابة الاجوبة فبه
  وعندما تعود بعد فترة اشهر تجد مستجدات حياتك
  وكيف انك ستجيب جواب مختلف عما كنت عليه مسبقاً
  
  
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  Andrea James

  I bought this book mainly because I was interested in the authors' decision-making questions. The positive aspect of the book is that it makes you take the time to ask yourself things that you may take for granted or of which you may take little notice, such as "2 compliments that you often get" or "what have you struggled with in the past but learnt to live with".
  
  But in the main, the questions relied too much on self-assessment and most of us are quite judges of our own and other peoples' characters, we have rather selective memories and are terrible at predicting our future choices/behaviour. And we fail to see that we are bad at these things so we will feel satisfied or defend our answers.
  
  While the act of answering questions does have some value, I expected better devised questions for a small £10 book.
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  Razan Alghriafi

  Firstly, let’s agree that it is not a book.
  
  It is a kind of a notebook, where you have to fill out millions of questions.
  
  I loved the idea, but I have wasted my money!
  Cause I am still not convinced that we should consider it as a book!!
  
  Will fill it during my free time to have fun!! Lol
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  Mateja

  Tough questions you were always afraid to ask... yourself.
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  Maria Espadinha

  Auto Diagnóstico e Cura
  
  
  O que nos faz falta?
  
  O que dispensamos?
  
  O que podemos optimizar?
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  Para encontrar as respostas certas à que formular as perguntas certas. Só assim é possível aguçar a consciência sobre nós mesmos e melhorar as nossas vidas!...
  
  
  Nota:Para quem preferir , existe uma edição em português intitulada "O Livro das Perguntas"
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  Viji (Bookish endeavors)

  First, if you plan to answer the questions written in this book in writing, keep it in a safe place. You really don’t want that getting into someone else’s hands, unless you have written all good things about yourself and plan to impress that girl/guy finally!
  
  The questions are simple, and most of them are what you might get in a rapid fire round if you plan to attend some reality talk show, or what you might get from your girlfriend (because I don’t think a boyfriend will ask so many questions, sorry if I offend any men who do!) in the initial days of your love story. It won’t have a life-altering effect, but it will surely make you think for a while.
  
  When I posted this book on my whatsapp status update, I got a very interesting question- can we call this a book?
  
  And that led me to the thought- why do we call anything a book?!
  
  As per definition, a book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages together and protected by a cover.
  
  Images and words arranged in a structural format, is it what it is? Then what do we call ‘Ecce Homo’, the ravings of a philosopher about to lose his sanity? Or what about James Joyce’s works? Or if the number of words are to be counted as the criteria, then how about the collections of haikus or verses by Rumi? Don’t they also qualify?
  
  A book is a condensed form of one idea, or many ideas. It may be as defined or desired by the author, or it may be left to the interpretation of the reader in the post modern times, a time which claims that ‘the author is dead’.
  
  Representation of ideas can be in a limited format, letting the reader go between and beyond the words. One such example is of Cesare Aira. He is also a champion of writing books less than 200 pages, saying he cannot bring two ideas in one book. One can also find the kinds of Umberto Eco who devote hundreds of pages to one idea. Both of them are prominent authors and both have their own followers, and some like me follow both of them. The size of their writings is not what defines their content.
  
  Proust is a name known and revered in limited circles, and known for the tomes he had produced ‘In remembrance of the lost time’, interconnecting neuropsychology and Literature. Saramago is equally known for being difficult to comprehend, but taunting one with less number of pages. The depth or profundity of an author is also thus not represented by the structure or number of pages he uses.
  
  Incredulity towards meta narratives have drawn the post modern literature towards rediscovering and reinterpreting the conventional definitions of every part of our life, including books. In such times, a lover of knowledge should be open to deconstructions of one’s own presuppositions of the existing definitions and should expand the horizons of what a concept can be. For every age brings with it new ideas. It is only by adopting and adapting and churning out what’s unacceptable that progress is possible.
  
  
  
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  Dee

  أسئله ممتعه وفى أسئله محبطه بصراحه
  ونص الكتاب سبته فاضى عشان نص الأسئله بتتكلم فى حاله انى عندى partner
  او عندى اطفال
  وانا لا عندى ده ولا ده الحمدلله :D
  كتاب لطيف مش وحش ومش اجمد حاجه
  اخر جزء كتبت فيه حاسه بايه حاليا وفى جزء أسئله عن القلق والأوفرثينكنج
  فا كتبت كل الى حساه بالملى
  وأخر ورقه أسئله انت بتسألها
  وكتبت فيه أسئله كتير
  ياترى هعرف إجاباتها ولا لا
  ياترى هيتحقق الى انا عايزاه ولالا
  إلى أتمناه إن فعلا ما يتحققش الى بخاف منه
  وإن الأيام الجايه تبقى سعيده
  فا ياااارب السنه الجديده تدخل علينا كلنا بالسعاده والإطمئنان والبعد كل البعد عن التوتر
• 
  Nakul Shenoy

  Sticking with my love for simple, small, "pocket" books, I recently found a set of three that are definitely worth more than one read: Michael Krogerus & Roman Tschäppeler's The Decision Book, The Change Book, & The Question Book.
  
  Each of these espouse 50 Models that make you ponder on the everyday aspects of life. My personal favourite among the three (and each of them is good!) is The Change Book, which vies to explain "how things happen".
  
  Try it. I know you will enjoy it.
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  Vaish

  The one word that describes this book must be "brilliance". You discover so much about yourself while reading this book answering these questions. Obviously I haven't answered all of them yet, I've got too much fun with this book to already finish this, but I already wanted to do the review.
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  Ayham

  New of its kind, help in asking yourself questions to understand yourself better.
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  J Day

  If you want to know about someone really deeply
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  Helen Hnin

  Thanks, this was worse than I thought and it had no impact on my life whatsoever! :) I was right when I said this sound like a glorified instagram story challenge and I should've stopped sooner but alas!
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  Nick Rogers

  This is quite simply one of the most useful books I have ever read. It does exactly has it says on the cover, asking thought provoking questions about who you are and your views on life, politics, religion, career, relationships, sex, past, present, future, emotions, death, birth, hopes, regrets...do I need to continue? You will explore yourself and know yourself and like yourself a lot more, or it could send you into an existential crisis. For me, it was the former.
  
  Some questions will frustrate and others seem monotonous...but my gosh I've learned.
  
  It's not the best book ever, but I judge books on their importance to me personally and what I take from them. Therefore, like I say above, it's one of the most useful books I have ever read, and certainly one of most dynamic self help books (if you can call it that) I have ever read. I feel I have self-helped myself.
  
  Five stars well awarded.
  
  To conclude though, and I take advice from other reviews, keep this book (and your answers) in a safe place and show no one. It's yours and yours only, and you help write your own book.
• 
  Stephen Lake

  Many really good, probing questions cataloged in this short book, but nothing too revolutionary. These are the kind of questions that insightful counselors and coaches always ask. So as a reference or a review, or perhaps to add some spark to a relationship or your own journaling, this is a helpful work.
  
  As I read through these I kept thinking: it would be a great occasional exercise for me to write up as many probing questions as I can. Almost to create my own Book of Questions, just so I got better at posing questions, thinking more in terms of questions than of answers. I’m a talker by nature, so a book like this does stimulate and challenge me to grow in question-posing.
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  Cherise Aquilina

  "How do you explain the fact that women in all western countries still earn less than men?"

  
  1/5 stars
  
  The only thing I can say is that most of the questions were quite underwhelming... This was more of a notebook filled with questions, rather than a book. 🥱
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  Sarah

  Bill and I went through this during a few long car trips. Some of the questions were repetitive and some were kind of stupid but it was fun and a good way to get to know each other more while also killing time. It's not really meant to be done all with a partner but it worked for us.
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  Khalid Almoghrabi

  A mirror of question for self-assessment. It could be much better with analysis and advices to add to this small book
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  Nymeria

  Samo ja mogu da preletim preko opisa i napravim neku svoju sliku u glavi.
  Verovatno mi zato cesto ljudi govore da izvrcem stvari koje su mi rekli, a ja zapravo samo imam neku svoju cudnu perspektivu.
  Dakle, ja sam mislila da mi covek postavi pitanje i onda analizira sta znaci taj moj odgovor.
  Gde to pise? Pa, nigde i to nije poenta.
  Dakle bas kao sto se zove - to je knjiga u kojoj su postavljena pitanja ciji odgovor pises direktno u nju. Logicno.
  Dakle jos manje logicno je zasto sam je skinula na Kindle.
  Ali hej, pandemija hara, ja sam samoizolovana, ionako nemam pametnija posla petkom, izvucem ti ja neku svesku i krenem da prepisujem pitanja i bas iskreno odgovaram.
  Shvatim da ima milion i jedno (po mojim kriterijumima) kretensko pitanje i takva preskocim.
  Nisu ona nesto preduboka, ali hajde ima nekih oko kojih sam se fino zamislila pa je tu pala i pokoja samospoznajica.
  Zabavilo me je kad su me pitali kako bi me opisali roditelji, a ja onda ispitala mamu i tatu da uporedim odgovore i to tokom voznje u kolima, da nema bezanja iako je tata odmah pitao - jel moramo sad.
  
  “Pa, ovako ... rekao bih da si iskrena i ponekad jako tvrdoglava. Jesi to napisala?”
  “Paaa ne, ja sam mislila da ces reci da sam duhovita i zabavna”
  “Al on to nije pomenuo”
  “Nije”
  
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  Girish Kumar

  Very cathartic and relieving

  
  

  Recent times have made it very difficult to confide in or to open up to someone without ridicule or judgments.

  
  

  The book, which is a series of questions that systematically probes our deepest darkest secrets and just lays them in front of us to examine. It also allows us to reveal things that have been hiding just below the subconscious and gnawing at our peace and calm.

  
  

  Personally, this book has been very therapeutic and cathartic, it has especially helped me open up about topics that I have kept under wraps for all my life.

  
  

  Thank you..!

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  
• 
  Jim Razinha

  Mistake. A recommendation by an AI that widely missed its target. I’ve had the authors’ book The Decision in my queue for a while now, bumping it down again and again. So this came up and had an teasing blurb…
  
  … which was deceptive. A lot of questions ranging from inane to silly to just plain nonsense. Somebody might like this. But somebody had better not leave it lying around when finished. Good password fodder. Or blackmail material.
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  Leah

  A lot of these questions are repetitive. From the description, I'd figured it would be far more in depth than it was. But it never was. It came off to me that the book bases most of the questions off of how you appear to others or how you would like to appear to others.
  
  Skip this book, you don't need it in your life.
  
  Not to mention it's wildly outdated.
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  Klaudia

  Pierwszy raz zetknęłam się z książką zawierającą same pytania. Było to ciekawie doświadczenie. Jednak niektóre pytania trochę mnie zawiodły. Myślałam że po przeczytaniu tej lektury coś się zmieni, bądź będę mieć jakiekolwiek przemyślenia, a żadnych nie mam. Dosłownie chyba nic nie wyniosłam z tej książki:((
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  Nicole

  I was honestly expecting a book where the world's questions were explained. It's not. It's literally what the title says, a compilation of questions. The answers are our own. I would say some were pretty interesting! Help me dig into my own life, who I was, who I am, and what I want to be. It's a good past-time book and probably great for ice-breakers as well.
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  Ayesha Holder

  The book was basic and just a way to kill time. I was wasn’t actually writing answers but then I got to the apart about religion. The section for thesis was ok but the section for non-believer was filled with judgmental questions and accusations rather than real questions. I would give a zero star if I could.
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  Danielle

  This really wasn’t what I thought it would be. It is literally a book only filled with hundreds of questions. I thought it would include some context as well. I didn’t actually answer each question… just kind of read through them. Interesting… but it’s really just a tool for self reflection. It doesn’t guide you anywhere.
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  Maryam Same

  الكتاب اول مره سمعته عنه في سناب المدربه مريم الدخيل
  وشريته من جرير
  عباره عن اسئله في كذا مجال وتجاوبهم تعرف نفسك اكثر ينفع تستخدمه لوحدك او في جلسات اصدقاء واقارب
  عن نفسي جربته بكذا جلسه كل واحد يختار رقم ونجاب اهم شي الصدق في الاجابات
  الباب اللي الغيه باب الموت و الفقد لانه مو ناقصين نكد غير كذا كتاب حلو كثير
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  Nick Woodall

  I love these books by these two guys! They provoke thought and discussion. Good tools to have in your toolkit.