Chapter 1 - Ask questions

Questions are the foundation of rational thinking. Without questions, you only use what you already know, and what you already know can be correct, partially correct, wrong or partially wrong.

Questions are addressed to the rational you. The answer of the rational you, because there is always an answer, depends on what knowledge and experiences you have accumulated up to that moment of the question.

We will start with a close analysis so that you can understand the first stage. You are now reading a site. Why are you reading a site? The guiding question that regulates the world according to interest. Interest is a very responsive catalyst, most activities are inspired by interest. Why are you reading a site? To obtain information. The next series of questions should come naturally: am I looking for information? If so, what kind of information am I looking for? Is this source of information correct? Should I write down the information and look for other sources for confirmation so that I can draw a correct and complete conclusion?

Let's get back to the answer to why I read the site – because I'm bored. Why am I bored? Because I have nothing to do? How can I have nothing to do when there are so many things that I like and I can choose any of them. Branching: I don't know what I enjoy anymore (here is laziness and lying) No matter how little you have experienced in life, you have found out some of what you like and what you don't like, so you already have a set of activities.

We also have the option – I got bored of what I used to enjoy. The answer implies your desire for something new, beautiful and that attracts you. Also, if you hesitate and only do the same activities, there is a good chance that you had developed a fear of what is new. Maybe you don't see a mysterious world with wonders worth discovering in front of you, but you see a threatening world full of dangers. That's another reasoning and a meditation topic, but let's get back to the questions. So why do you do an action like reading a website? What other questions should you ask? Why are you standing in the position you are? Is it chosen by you or do you adapt to the environment you are in? Why are you moving your toes when you are reading the website now? Why are you moving your mouse cursor around the screen when you are reading? (Is the answer a problem of body attention; are you not focusing one hundred percent on the reading activity and are you also developing other activities or are you unable to maintain constant control of your focus so that you can concentrate throughout the reading or do you have a patience problem?) Why do you read the beginning of the word and jump between the lines with your eyes? Can you read and pronounce the words read in your mind? This is how focus develops. Attention is the decision of the rational self – you have decided to be one hundred percent attentive to something, and focus should appear when you want it to and not when you are forced by circumstances. If a wild animal appears right now near you, you will discover that you can focus perfectly one hundred percent without even blinking….

Focus is one of your weapons. Like any weapon if it is not sharpened by training, it rusts over time.

Let's get back to the questions. Why do you read? Why do you move? How do you read? How do you move? The world around you is in constant motion and "why" should always be used to identify your own interests as well as those of the beings that intersect with you.

Let's take a break to answer the question of why I wrote this site? Out of kindness, out of humanity, out of hatred , hiding my intentions, do I want to manipulate you? I will answer honestly, a little of each.

Questions are of several types: of place, of time, of manner. When you ask a question, you activate your rational you and take another step forward on the path to becoming a rational being, a human being.

I encourage you to take "asking questions" to the highest level. Ask yourself why people do what they do, why grass grows, why grass is green, why animals walk and don't float, why trees have thorns, why an online newspaper writes about only one event of the day when several events are happening, why information is transmitted by a person who does not know the field but is considered an expert, who considers them an expert and how they came to write about that field. This is the first stage: asking questions and looking for answers. Now the stage would not be complete if we did not talk about the answers. When you ask a question, the rational will give you an answer. Now you have to ask the question whether or not it is the correct answer. You have to check the rational's knowledge set and draw a correct conclusion, especially since it is about your knowledge base where you cannot cheat but you have to work and check any information to be correct. When a person is a child, he learns from the people around him, parents, brothers, sisters. Later, information from friends, acquaintances or events is added. After some time, he becomes rational and then analyzes the information through his own structure. This own structure is achieved until then from what I mentioned previously. As a result, the structure incorporates information from other analysis systems that may be correct or may be wrong. I am absolutely convinced that most fears and phobias are copied by children from their parents without any analysis or objection. Inherited practically from parents voluntarily (when they try to scare the child to make him behave) or involuntarily (the parent is afraid of something and the child copies the fear)

If you ask questions, you will find answers to many things. Through questions, the mechanism of thinking is produced, so you must learn to ask questions about everything every day. You may think that you do this and that it is simple, but I warn you that you certainly do not do this and it is not simple in any way. You will see if you try how much energy it consumes.

Let's emphasize the importance of the cycle - asking questions - getting answers - asking questions about the answers - continuous movement until you reach the condition of accepting an answer as correct and complete. Although the mechanism is primary, in order to be developed you must develop focus, patience, honesty with yourself, things that we will talk about in the following chapters.

Let's complete the first chapter of asking questions with the next stage, namely: what are the correct questions. Asking questions is good, but what questions you must look for to be good. This way you realize what you are looking to find out about when you ask the questions and establish interest. Interest forces you to a set of questions to obtain a set of answers, but it limits your search to the perspective of interest and casts a shadow on answers that are not related, although they may be important. That is why you must always ask yourself which question are correct or which are the correct questions.

The last stage after you learn to ask questions and look for the correct questions will be the stage in which you think about why you ask questions and why you are looking for the correct answers. I will not give you the answer here. It is your duty and your obligation.

The most important thing is to have a structure in searching for and verifying information. You must be very careful not to draw conclusions too quickly, based on insufficient data or circumstantial evidence. If, for example, you searched for information and the first two sources confirmed your information, you tend to draw a conclusion. It is a common mistake. Even if the information seems correct and is still being verified, you still need to complete the search and analysis process. Specifically, imagine a situation in which you meet a new colleague who says almost nothing, has a cold and unfriendly attitude towards you and other people. You notice various grimaces and interpret that is because at the sight of you or other people. You follow her behavior for the first week and conclude that she is a cold, mean person who probably can't stand you, taciturn and introverted. However, this person we are talking about may have recently had neck surgery and is recovering and suffering during this time, and you and the others, being new colleagues, may not be able to tell you why she is keeping her distance. Although the information is correct, it becomes correct in a certain time interval related to a certain situation that has a major influence. You cannot know whether after recovery the person will remain as mean and unfriendly or will change for the better. So you need to obtain more data over a longer period of time.

The answers and conclusions on the other hand are of several categories. Own or copied, received, suggested, that is, improper. You need to be very careful when issuing a conclusion to verify the issued conclusion. The impartial logical framework is mandatory along with a depersonalization. You need to analyze from an objective perspective and look at yourself from the outside. Knowing yourself you will analyze the justification of your actions and motivation.

How does it help you? You will know how you reached a conclusion, and the conclusion becomes a guiding principle in life. Analysis is very useful especially in conclusions related to health. For example, your group of friends supports a mentor who promotes the absence of movement, laziness and idleness. Indirectly as a member of the group you end up hearing conclusions that activity is bad and idleness is okay. If you have a solidly developed mental structure in which you have previously developed a conclusion that: physical activity means better health, then you will reject the information, further more you will try to convince your friends of the errors that copy and apply them. (You can extend the example to see how many groups and organizations this applies to. You will see people who walk like sheep in an orderly and ordered way looking for answers in other people and not in their own minds.)

The comfort of receiving the answer is the most often used in manipulation. People without a structure of conclusions based on questions and analysis tend to take for granted whatever they receive. The recommendation, the solution, the proposal coming from a person they trust becomes something accepted and appropriated. But does the person who recommends and whom you trust want your best? Does he know your needs? Your desires? Does he know whether you need it or not? Does he know your financial situation, can you afford it? Another interesting question is how did it manage to gain your trust? Is your answer satisfactory or did you dwell on it for no reason?

If you analyze the advertisements displayed everywhere, you will laugh every time. Analyze the form, the symbols, the presentation method. Analyze the text, what words are chosen and why they are chosen or repeated. The symbolism of the images, direct or partial or the way they are superimposed. Then analyze the sound, the tone it indicates, what it is preparing, the type of tone chosen, its timbre and especially its purpose. What feelings does it seek to activate. Only then you move on to the product and analyze what it is made of, where it is made, what its utility is, what similar products exist on the market. After asking the questions and looking for the answers, move on to the personal perspective: do you need it? is it useful? do you really need it or does it just improve comfort? can you afford it?

All these are analyses, first objective and then subjective. And you have to do them for everything. Maybe that's why sometimes it's easier to get the solution and lose the training. What does this mean? Training in asking questions increases speed and accuracy. Every time you do it, you will be able to do it faster and more comprehensively. At some point it will be almost instantaneous and the people around you will say that you have done something superhuman, like magic.

Build your structure for asking questions from close to far. Analyzing yourself is the first step. You wake up and drink coffee. Why do you drink coffee? Do you go to work? Why do you go to work? Do you plan vacations - why do you plan vacations? Do you blink - why do you blink? The structure of the questions you ask is important. Ask the question, notice the way you ask the question, its wording. Notice your interest formulated in the question. Analyze whether this question is correct and complete or partial for your interest. Look for improvement then look for solutions and alternative answers. Are the sources of information good? Are the sources of information sufficient? Do you also need to include a time frame? And if so, what time frame? Does the time frame vary the correctness of the answers?

Reading this, I suspect you are beginning to understand what I want you to do. I want you to get the construct because if you have the construct, along with it comes a hunger for knowledge and you begin to seek wisdom. This search is in itself evolution no matter what level you reach. The search for wisdom may now seem like something sensational, but I promise you that along the way it will seem normal to you. Others who do not apply will continue to consider it sensational….