The Book With No Answers

Books like this can be the lever long enough that moves the world. A key that opens a very specific door. We used to go into encyclopaedias for knowledge, now we have Google where you can get basic information on most subjects. But questions help you open up your mind and perceive differently. And that's where this book comes in useful. The wise will buy it and use it to open their minds. Maybe not today. But when they need it. I was glad to read it and it's a reference book few know how much they need.

Don’t believe the title of this book: The Book With No Answers. While it’s true that there are direct answers, only questions, the questions posed are meant to lead you to discover your own answers. I generally like self-help books. Even if it’s information I’ve read or heard before, sometimes just hearing things said in a different way helps things click for me. And as you might have grasped from my opening comments, this is a self-help book unlike most I’ve read in the past. As I said, the book doesn’t give direct ‘answers’ rather poses questions. Author Robert James Maiolo wrote this book this way for a few key reasons. He says you can’t just take someone else’s answers and think they will work for you because ‘Their answers are based on their life and experiences, not yours,’ and because ‘I don’t know you, so I’m in no position to offer answers; that part is on you.’ That seems so incredibly obvious and yet reading about his approach also felt like a brilliant insight. So in this book Mr. Maiolo again and again presents readers with questions that are meant to make us think/focus in on what we really want, what’s important to us, and how we might achieve the life/goals we set for ourselves. I don’t know about you, but often times I get stumped when asked questions. It’s not that I don’t have answers but rather there are times I’m not sure what exactly a person is looking for in an answer. Here again Mr. Maiolo helps us out. Within the book he offers us up examples in the form of a man named James, who’s responses to the posed questions can serve as a guide. Not that James’ answers are meant to be used by us, but as an example of what a person might be thinking/how they view the questions to come up with answers that are right for them. Like all self-help books, you’ll only get out what you put in. Now in the case of The Book With No Answers I think you actually need to put in a bit more work than with other self-help books, but I mean that in a positive way. Rather than laying out a plan for you to follow this book forces you into some real self examination, forcing you to come up with the plan that will work best for you. I’d like to thank BooksGoSocial and NetGalley for the chance to read and review an advanced copy of The Book With No Answers.

This might be called The Book of Questions. Either way, it is a nice, basic, simple approach to finding your way. This will resonate with lots of people, and might be deceptively simple. It doesn't have the flash of "big" self-help titles, but still effective. I like the encouragement offered along the way. Nicely done. Sometimes it's very powerful to go back to basics.

Thanks very much for the free review copy for review!!

Self-help books for a better life are always promising lots and so does this book with its guidelines to question yourself en detail. I liked the author‘s basic thoughts how to come closer to solutions. It will be helpful, I‘m sure, only one thing the reader must realize and accept from the beginning: they must be willing to work through the questions, honestly and intense. Otherwise the book will help as much as a book for weight loss when the reader won‘t change the diet in reality.

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this helpful book!