[Read5for5 📚] How to Ask Bad Questions: 5 Questions to Avoid

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Hi friends,

This is Kei and Kazuki from Glasp 👋

We are excited to start Day 1 of the 5 Day Reading Challenge 📚✨ Here are three good articles we choose, so when you finish reading any of them or any article you want, share it on Twitter with the hashtag, "#read5for5"! Let's read good articles together and connect with like-minded people 🤝

Today's Reading List 📚

(1) Rare Skills by Morgan Housel (3 mins)

1. Understanding Delusions: Recognizing and respecting that everyone's beliefs are shaped by personal experiences and biases, leading to differing viewpoints, and emphasizing the importance of self-awareness in one's own beliefs.

2. The Value of Quitting Early: Emphasizing the skill of knowing when to stop before reaching excess, applicable in various aspects of life such as business, career, and personal habits, to avoid burnout and achieve sustainable success.

3. Concise Communication: Highlighting the critical skill of communicating effectively and succinctly, by treating words as valuable and focusing on eliminating unnecessary details to enhance clarity and impact.

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(2) The Four Idols: Money, Power, Pleasure, & Fame by Sahil Bloom (5 mins)

1. Four Idols Concept: Discusses Dr. Arthur Brooks' framework of the Four Idols - Money, Power, Pleasure, and Fame - and their distraction from true happiness.

2. Risks of Idol Worship: Highlights the dangers of unconsciously pursuing these idols, leading to a continuous, unfulfilling quest.

3. Personal Idol Identification: Introduces a method to identify one's primary idol and emphasizes the importance of awareness in differentiating this pursuit from the search for genuine happiness.

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(3) How to Ask Bad Questions: 5 Questions to Avoid by Chris Meyer (4 mins)

1. Leading and Loaded Questions: Both types steer responses towards a biased or implied answer, often resulting in skewed or manipulated information.

2. Double-Barreled Questions: These combine multiple queries into one, causing confusion and unclear responses; it's better to separate them into distinct questions.

3. Why Questions and Cunningham’s Law: "Why" questions can provoke defensiveness, while Cunningham's Law uses incorrect statements to elicit corrections, effectively drawing out accurate information.

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Glasp team

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