Reddit reviews Asking the Right Questions (11th Edition)

I recommend these two books. really helped me with my management style and allowed me to see problems from different perspective

Asking the right questions:a guide to critical thinking

Toyota Way Mangement Principles

I used this book: Asking the Right Questions

It didn't help me with lessons, but I created lessons using what I learned from it. I started with a discussion on values and value conflict. We made a list of the most generalized values we all held (loyalty, honesty, freedom etc.). Then we talked about situations when those values could be in conflict (e.g. honesty vs. loyalty).

Then we took apart political ads and propaganda to ask, "Which value preference is being shown here?" That did a lot to build students' tools for intellectual self-defense: knowing that an author is trying to get me to choose between two good things, and I might actually prefer something that they don't. An author argues for federal wiretaps using the value of safety, but the choice is between privacy and safety, and I actually prefer privacy more than safety.

I would actually recommend these two books:

https://www.amazon.com/Demon-Haunted-World-Science-Candle-Dark/dp/0345409469

https://www.amazon.com/Asking-Right-Questions-11th-Browne/dp/0321907957

I'm not trying to be condescending, but these will really steer you in the right direction on sourcing. I still use both in my daily life all the time.

MY GTD rules in life ^ above defined

• Those are the only ones i can think of off the top of my head. Like I said, most of these sayings I borrowed elsewhere, although I did make a few quotes that i follow myself pretty religiously. And the thing about these rules, is that they fundamentally don't change over time, they are essentially LAWS (well validated theories) in my mind, so I can trust my philosophical statements because 1. I either can vet it from my own experience . 2. I can vet it from experiences of others. Like any good law, lots of data has to support it, and there needs to be little amounts of disproving data, which all of these do follow, according to SCIENCE and the SCIENTIFIC METHOD.
  
  
• And a lot of effort went into defining these rules. IT wasn't just on a fucking whim, on a copy+paste like many other books do just to write some content in their shitty, meager ass copy-cat e-book to make money & bragging rights. No, these rules ring true to me, and its the reason why I can do 3rd hand correlations so rapidly and churn 50,000 chars a day consistently for 1 month, where people struggle to write 1/1000th of that. That my life was difficult as fuck , and I overcame it, and these rules were some of the factors doing so - granted I didn't know of all of them at the time. This post, in of itself, is a proof of burden, because not many people (Exception: authors) can write the equivalent of 3 harry potter's book worth of content on their life in one fucking month. And I still havent' even covered like 25% of the other shit I need to talk about.
  
  
• When I took these rules from other sources, or through myself, I spent months thinking about my life after university, and what makes me me. My past experiences, my life growing up. Why was I different? Why do I have XYZ problems all the time, and why is ABC stupidly easy yet people consider it hard? And vice versa, why do people think AAA is easy, but its super hard for me? It wasn't until last month until it finally manifested into this large ass 1,000,000 character post.
  
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  My GTD rules, part 2
  
  
• This post, was mainly made, to discovery myself. Because I know, that I am a far outlier of the norm. And that it is hard to psychologically diagnose me from a 3rd party, since my life is too hard to relate to people, I know this to be true since I highly doubt any person out there (I look at reddit all the time, good overall study of the population as a whole), even in the world of 7 billion people, nobody has anything remotely close to my unique combination of experiences growing up. Even if they did, there's no way in hell i'd know, those people are closet introverts. I looked at r/askreddit for like 2 years to see if anyone did. And r/offmychest. And all the other storytelling ones. Nope. Just me, I am weird and different. And I accept that for what it is. Its bad and good, its just whatever
  
  
• I could be wrong here, but growing up, Google didn't fucking exist you know back then, so even if there were people like me, you fucking couldn't find them anyhow and they'd live in another country more than likely, since america is only 300ish million people.
  
  
• So I diagnose my own issues, with this post. Find out why I tick the way I do. Find out why i hate and like things, where they originiate from, SCIENCE+HISTORY, and this shitty version of tag/neuroscience i am coining up.
  
  
• As I've stated earlier, I don't make statements willy nilly. Every statement I ever make in this post, or in life, carries power behind it. My history, other people's history, science, ETC. There is a reason I do everything in life, I take nothing for granted. This post is just one giant fucking PMT that links up all my other PMT thoughts together, I learned a lot and have probably gotten a wee bit smarter since writing this post out (albeit, maybe less creativity too). Speak softly, but carry a large stick this is what I do all the time in my life
  
  END, 10:18 AM, 3/31/16
  
  Well that was somthing off my chest, jesus fuck. Now I gotta go back to writing Onenote's history that I sort of made up, later. And, I will get to my outline in week 6 (push back one week), and then finish covering the meaty content of my GTD methodology, its rich history, at the end of week 5 hopefully. By the end of month 2, I should have an almost completed draft, table of contents done too, and probably 4 harry potter novels worth of words written down.
  
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  Why I want to be physically strong and capable
  
  Was reading the front page. came across this:
  
• https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/4cn426/17_year_old_calls_911_to_help_dying_father_gets/d1k0hr8 . I think i remember now, why I want to be almost essentially register my fists as weapons in the future (not really, but figuratively able too) and to get really fucking buff and ripped.
  
  
• First, to prove how far i come in life from my LEGO body, that I can overcome anything in life, despite the fact that I have it harder than the average male.
  
  
• Second, to be able to unleash deadly force at will, in the instance I have to defend myself, because I was too weak to stand up against my bullies in school growing up. That I was pushed and shoved around. That I sucked at sports and people made fun of me for it. That I almost died getting house broken into. That I got jumped by a bunch of black guys in school. Getting basically at knifepoint in another country, when I was weak and feeble. I want the raw potential
  
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  Mentoring manufacturers
  
  
• I just realized something. I do in fact tell manufacturers how to do their job a lot, like how to do their design cataloging, how to market themselves to me properly / where they do things poorly, what ASSETS they should really be giving me, a constructive criticism as well, how the industry works. Some actually put my implementations in, with specific new products made for us / general market.
  
  
• I never noticed this before, but people in many industries always say "Daphoenix, you ask some great questions!". IDK, its just something i always knew how to do growing up. Like, is it not normal to ask these questions? What do people normally ask? How much is it? How expensive it is? The shallow obvious questions? I always ask "whats your background mr sales guy" "What technologies are you buying from xyz" "What's your manufacturing capabilites like" "Do you have an infographic detailing the decision making process and RoI generator for me to give to people?"
  
  
• I have this feeling people take a shit ton of fucking ideas from me, granted I don't know. Like back in guild wars 1, I had to deal with Koreans stealing my IP and my monopoly ideas for dungeon running. Like what the fuck, who the fuck has to worry about that growing up? I treated my guild wars 1 hobby like a fucking enterprise job, like how people treat their corporations in EvE online as a job.
  
  
• That reminds me, theres a book about "Asking the right questions the first time". Lemme buy it . http://i.imgur.com/ohGFdEO.png. Now cross check with frequently bought together if theres a better book, Amazon is a great tool for finding good things to buy, from other peoples purchasing history http://i.imgur.com/hhacrn7.png
  
  
• On this. http://i.imgur.com/HNmpx5y.png. http://www.amazon.com/Asking-Right-Questions-11th-Edition/dp/0321907957?ie=UTF8&keywords=asking%20the%20right%20questions&qid=1459441649&ref_=sr_1_1&s=books&sr=1-1. Do these reviews have merit? Sounds legit. Can i learn from bad authors? How bad writing takes place? How to take a lesson on not to write a book? I wander, I feel like , just looking at the topic of this book, i can write a better book easily. Maybe im cocky and over confident, but many times people have praised my ability to "Ask the right questions" growing up. In school and in the industry, in gaming, doesnt matter
  
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  Books out there on productivity, are they full of shit?
  
  
• That reminds me, aren't most authors full of fucking shit most of the time? for nonfiction. Especially social media. Like "HOW TO GET SUPER RICH AT YOUR HOME DOING THESE 3 EASY STEPS**. I used ebay before, and traded in the 0.01 cent ebook market, i would know to inflate my overall ratings to build "trust" on ebay, to game "Amazon" because i buy from amazon all the fucking time, and have talked directly to Amazon Reps. I've read many of these get rich quick schemes and bullshit e-books too (embedded PDFs with links), cause i peddled them off on ebay and sold a virtual download.
  
  
• I read timothy ferrises 4 hour day book. I don't think i learned anything but the word "Virtual Assistant" from that book. I learned, that timothy ferris pays off a lot of sham reviews since that book had almost 4000 reviews all 5 star positively rated since day one.
  
  
• see most popular critical review from timothy ferris: http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RC5N8PU9BEAMU/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_viewpnt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0307465357#RC5N8PU9BEAMU. And, this indicator. http://i.imgur.com/OsrfXYn.png . Do you know how big of a disparity there is between how many "reviewers found each helpful"? By a factor of almost 15? Most are usually 1:1 or 1:2 ratio, on a statistical average population, I would know, I shop a lot on amazon and gather data like i getting my internet cookies , yum.
  
  
• see http://i.imgur.com/EZCnrqk.png. #NY best seller is generally paid off now, and "serial" generally means full of shit.
  
  
• EDIT: Also, I notice that the word "serial entreprenuer" generally = "I'm a full of shit entreprenuer." Just the word "serial" generally makes me assume your a stupid arrogant prick
  
  
  
  

You can't even critically analyze your own (jumping-to-conclusions, mentally unstable, loaded, and toxic) thought process. Please read a book or two and think much while you do (find an older paperback edition). You and similar muddled-minded idiots are ones putting words in mouths and injecting/projecting your rash, stupid assumptions.