
The Book of Questions — Gregory Stock
This is a book for personal growth, a tool for deepening relationships, a lively conversation starter for the family dinner table, a fun way to pass the time in the car. It poses over 300 questions that invite people to explore the most fascinating of subjects: themselves and how they really feel about the world.
Here are a sample of some of my favourite questions:
1: For a person you loved deeply, would you be willing to move to a distant country knowing there would
be little chance of seeing your friends or family again
2: Do you believe in ghosts or evil spirits? Would you be willing to spend a night alone in a remote house
that is supposedly haunted?
3: If you were to die this evening with no opportunity to communicate with anyone, what would you
most regret not having told someone? Why haven’t you told them yet?
4: If you could spend one year in prefect happiness but afterward would remember nothing of the
experience would you do so? If not, Why not
4b: Which is more important: actual experiences , or the memories that remain when the experiences are over?
5:If a new medicine were developed that would cure arthritis but cause a fatal reaction in one percent of
those who took it, would you want it to be released to the public?
6: You discover your wonderful one-year-old child is, because of a mix up at the hospital, not yours.
Would you want to exchange the child to try to correct the mistake?
7: Do you think the world will be a better or worse place one hundred years from now?
8: Would you rather be a member of a world championship sports team or be the champion of an
individual sport? Which sport would you choose?
9: Would you accept $1,000,000 to leave the country and never set foot in it again?
9b: If you were expelled from the country and had only limited financial resources, where would you try
to rebuild your life?
10: Which sex do you think has it easier in our culture? Have you ever wished you were the opposite sex?
11: You are given the power to kill people simply by thinking of their deaths and twice repeating the word
“good-bye.” People would die a natural death and no one would suspect you. Are there situations in
which you would use this power?
11b: If you can imagine yourself killing someone indirectly, could you still see yourself doing so if you
had to look into the person’s eyes and stab the person to death? Have you ever genuinely wanted to kill
someone, or wished someone dead?
12: If you were able to live to the age of ninety and retain either the body or the mind of a thirty year old
for the last sixty years of your life, which would you choose?
13: What would constitute a “perfect” evening for you?

