Think and grow rich - Accurate thinking

Questionnaire

1. Why is it a surprise that people take time to learn the rules for accurate thinking?
-Because the rules are really clean and simple

2. Accurate thinking is bases on two fundamentals - what are they?
-Inductive reasoning & deductive reasoning

3. With inductive reasoning what do you act on?
-Hypothesis or what you asume the facts to be

4. With accurate thinking you have to separate fact from...
-Fiction

5. Facts should be separated into classes - name them
-Important facts & unimportant facts

6. What is an important fact and how can I distinguish from an unimportant fact?
-An important fact is any fact which will aid you to any extent whatsoever & all other facts as far as you are concerned are unimportant and you should waste no time with them

7. Most opinions are without value because they are based on...
-Pride, prejudice, beliefs, poor evidence, inccurance, etc.

8. What was the sentence with the President Woodrow Wilson?
-"I cannot answer your question because I have no facts on whichdebased on opinion"

9. The more succesful a person is the less he is inclined to...
-Express wild and justify opinons about anything

10. What was the question to ask to help someone being misled by unsound opinions from people?
-How do you know?

11. As your birthright you were given the privilege of controlling...what?
-Your own thoughts

12. What were the rules to follow that if you memorise them give you top rating as a thinker?

a) Never accept the opinions of other people as being facts until you've learn the sources of the opinons and satisfied yourself of their accuracy
b) Free advice will bear the closest of examinations until it is safe. This advice is worth exactly what it costs
c) Alert yourself inmediately if you hear anyone speaking about...
d) In asking others for information do not disclose to them what you wish the information be
e) Remember that anything that exists anywhere throughout the universe is capable of prove
f) One of the great unexplainable miracles consists in the fact that both truth and falsehood carry with them a silent invisible meaning of identifying themselves as true
g) Follow the habit of asking: How do you know? when anyone makes a statement you cannot identify as true

13. What was the final word of warning? What is the greatest handicap in the business of accurate thinking?
- Study yourself carefully and you may discover that your own emotions are your greatest handicap in the business of accurate thinking


There are a few answers a could not get because I didn't understood the man :(