The book of questions by gregory stock

Questions that Provoke Thought

well this is different book, This is not a trivia book. This is a book of hopefully thought-provoking questions to ask yourself, your friends and your loved ones. They’re meant to create exciting evenings, teach you more about yourself and the people you care about, and create better connections between people with deep, interesting conversation rather than meaningless small-talk. It’s a tiny little book
There are a total of 217 separate questions, although some of them have multiple parts to them. Some of them also have “follow-up” questions – pages 183 onward are just follow-ups to various questions from the first part, meant to lead to further discussion. As Dr. Stock says on p. 183, “Good questions don’t lead to answers, they lead to more questions.” Questions with follow-ups are conveniently marked with an asterisk (*).
Some of the questions are reasonably light. Take question #4: “If you could spend one year in perfect happiness but afterward would remember nothing of the experience would you do so? If not, why not?” It’s an interesting question that cannot help but teach you something about yourself and your values. The follow-up question is a little more abstract: “Which is more important: actual experiences, or the memories that remain when the experiences are over?” What I found perhaps most interesting about this set of questions was not the set of answers that I gave, but the fact that they didn’t seem to match up. It’s amazing what you can learn and discover through the process of answering these questions.
Many of the questions are heavier than #4, and might spur some difficult emotions, so you should perhaps be careful which questions you choose to explore with whom. #149, for example, asks us, “Someone you love deeply is brutally murdered and you know the identity of the murderer, who unfortunately is acquitted of the crime. Would you seek revenge?” Some are also sexual in nature, so don’t hand this book to kids.
Still other questions are fairly whimsical in nature, and perfectly suited to discussion with someone you don’t know very well: #148 asks, “If, by having a 2 inch by 2 inch tattoo, you could save five lives and prevent a terrorist attack, would you do so? If you were allowed to select the location and design, where would you have it and what would the design be?”
#4 seems like the perfect question to inspire an odd story. #149 could inspire some very interesting background material for a fictional character. #148 could spur on some odd and unique roleplaying game material. You are encouraged not to answer with a simple yes or no, and not to be sidetracked by questions of the reality and believability of what you are being asked. Simply allow your mind to become engrossed in the possibilities.
In this way, this book also serves as a marvelous exercise in creativity and inspiration in general.

If the question makes you think, it’s worth asking.

• What is it like to wake up every morning and pretend that you aren’t dying?
• Do you believe in the death penalty? What if someone murdered your mother in cold blood? What if someone murdered a stranger’s mother, but saved your life the month before?
• If you had a friend who spoke to you in the same way that you sometimes speak to yourself, how long would you allow that person to be your friend?
• Would you rather be rich and paralyzed from the waist down or poor and able bodied?
• What’s the most expensive gift you have ever received? Is it the best gift you have ever received?
• When was the last time you lied? Is it possible to lie without saying anything at all?
• Stealing is immoral, right? But what if stealing was the only way to feed a starving child?
  If I gave you $20, what percentage would you – really – save? If I gave you $200,000, what percentage would you save? Should there be a difference?
• If someone could tell you the exact day and time that you are going to die, would you want them to tell you?
• If you found out you were going to die today, would you have any regrets? Would you be happy with the way you spent the last 24 hours of your life?
• What’s your single greatest moment of personal failure? Looking back on it now, did it make you weaker or stronger? What did you learn?
• Do the words ‘freedom’ and ‘liberty’ mean not being persecuted or discriminated against, or do they mean doing whatever you please?
• Have you ever discriminated against someone? Imagine that a street gang notorious for wearing purple shirts has robbed and murdered several hundred people in your town. If a man wearing a purple shirt just rang your doorbell, would you answer it?
• Is it crazier to choose to be poor or to spend 40 years of your life hating 40 hours a week?
  Do you ever feel like you don’t have enough time? How many hours a week do you spend watching TV, or playing video games, or…?
• Do you ever celebrate the green lights?
• If you could be given another talent or ability, what would you want it to be? Have you ever – really – tried to perfect this ability in yourself?
• No matter how bad things get, are you aware that someone always has it worse than you do?
• When you help someone, do you ever think, “What’s in it for me?”
• Joy is found with simple awareness. What does your joy look like today?
• What’s the difference between ‘living’ and ‘existing?’
• Are you willing to sacrifice the life of your child or lover to support a war?
• Do you ask enough questions, or do you settle for what you know?
• If you could do it all over again, would you change anything?
• If your life was a novel, what would be the title and how would your story end?
  

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