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102 reviews for:
A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
Warren Berger
3.84 AVERAGE
102 reviews for:
A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
Warren Berger
3.84 AVERAGE
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
This is one of those books that could have been confined to TED Talk length, but was expanded into a book. That being said, it gave me a lot to think about. The anecdotes about people who had asked new, brilliant questions were inspiring.
The most useful idea I took from it is the Why, What If, and How model of asking yourself questions.
*Why is this the way it is?
*What if it were different?
*How could I change it?
Writers and artists, I believe, naturally live in this model, as do children.
The Five Questions model, originated at Toyota, is also useful. When a problem happens, ask why five times, going deeper each time.
Why was there a production problem? Because the worker made a mistake.
Why did he make a mistake? Because he was tired.
Why was he tired? Because he worked too many hours that week.
Why did he work too many hours that week? Because we cut back on employees.
Why did we cut back on employees? To save money. Did it save money? Well, maybe not if there are production problems!
With all the people in our world offering cheap, trite, wasteful, or dangerous answers, a book encouraging people to ask beautiful questions can only help.
The most useful idea I took from it is the Why, What If, and How model of asking yourself questions.
*Why is this the way it is?
*What if it were different?
*How could I change it?
Writers and artists, I believe, naturally live in this model, as do children.
The Five Questions model, originated at Toyota, is also useful. When a problem happens, ask why five times, going deeper each time.
Why was there a production problem? Because the worker made a mistake.
Why did he make a mistake? Because he was tired.
Why was he tired? Because he worked too many hours that week.
Why did he work too many hours that week? Because we cut back on employees.
Why did we cut back on employees? To save money. Did it save money? Well, maybe not if there are production problems!
With all the people in our world offering cheap, trite, wasteful, or dangerous answers, a book encouraging people to ask beautiful questions can only help.
Хотя темы интересные, не покидает ощущение что автор журналист, который получает зарплату по 1000 знаков поэтому может расписывать то сё. Не понравилось так же начало (гл1 вопросы это силы ) - зато понравился конец (гл5 - личное использование). Хотя книга в начал бесила с каждой последующей главой становилась лучше и полезнее для меня.
It's not about knowing the answers, it's about being able to ask questions. That's the message of Berger's text and he provides a great range of ideas about how to get to asking great questions. I appreciate this book a lot, especially since I have as a tag line on my emails, "I wish I had all the answers; better yet, I wish I knew all the questions to ask." This book helped with thinking about questions to ask but also about ways of encouraging questions in teaching and learning that could produce solid outcomes for students. It's a versatile book that provides a lot of different ways to think about asking questions for learning, for working, and for living.
If you enjoyed this review, feel free to check out my other reviews and writings at By Any Other Nerd/
If you enjoyed this review, feel free to check out my other reviews and writings at By Any Other Nerd/
This is the book you want to read if you want to change the way you think. If you want to become more creative or be able to come up with more possibilities, or understand situations or relationships better, and a number of other things. It doesn't focus on one category in particular. You get a wide variety of kinds of questions and questions used in different circumstances to brainstorm and discover solutions to problems.
Good book! Take notes.
Good book! Take notes.
I don't know if Americans just love to fall for stuff like this, but for me, as a European and as a former scientist, this extremely cheap take on the great topic of the Art (or science) to ask questions sounds almost offensive. No methods of proper formulation of questions is presented in the book, the domain of science, where questions are the daily bread, is completely skipped in favor of entrepreneurship examples that sound like advertising.
The use of question asking as a social skill is also skipped over and using it for interfacing with others is suggested only in order to create a product or service in order to, wild guess, make money.
It is a depressing book if you are looking for actionable knowledge and especially if you are turned off by the cheap self-help lit meant to keep the antiquate American Dream alive.
Giving it 2 stars just because the topic would have been an interesting one.
The use of question asking as a social skill is also skipped over and using it for interfacing with others is suggested only in order to create a product or service in order to, wild guess, make money.
It is a depressing book if you are looking for actionable knowledge and especially if you are turned off by the cheap self-help lit meant to keep the antiquate American Dream alive.
Giving it 2 stars just because the topic would have been an interesting one.
What Robert Burton calls "certainty epidemic" is the moment when you become too familiar with something and overestimate your knowledge, putting too much faith in your gut instinct, walking around convinced you have more answers than you actually do and for this reason your most likely to ask less questions.
How might you change this you're wondering? Reading this book is a great start. You'll learn about the importance of taking a step back. It may seem unusual, but you'll gain more from taking a step back in order to move forward. You need to stop from "doing" and "knowing" in order to find something new, as Jon Seely Brown said "in order for imagination to flourish, there must be an opportunity to see things as other than they currently are or appear to be".
Then start with simple questions: Why? What if? How?
How might you change this you're wondering? Reading this book is a great start. You'll learn about the importance of taking a step back. It may seem unusual, but you'll gain more from taking a step back in order to move forward. You need to stop from "doing" and "knowing" in order to find something new, as Jon Seely Brown said "in order for imagination to flourish, there must be an opportunity to see things as other than they currently are or appear to be".
Then start with simple questions: Why? What if? How?
I found this book exhausting to read. The topic is great, but a lot of books I've read on this subject are very boring and repetitive.
An engaging read/listening (I did both e-book and audiobook) with an interesting approach to life and work.