The Right Question

Succeed at anything with the most powerful sentence in the world - every single success concept ever discovered, in one sentence. James de Garmo studied every book and video he could get his hands on in the areas of self help, motivation, success and personal development for 25 years and reduced every idea in the genre to a three-part question designed to immediately provide results that rocket the reader toward the life of their dreams.

Most self help books and materials are written around a central idea. With that in mind, de Garmo began to collate everything he'd learned in these materials into one book. He wanted to clarify that central philosophy in each of them and create a reference manual for his own use by distilling the approach in each of these books into a more concise form than even the original author had intended. As he combed through his exhaustive self help and success lit library, however, a few things he hadn't noticed before became glaringly obvious.

One was that these authors borrow from each other to an alarming degree, so there really wasn't that much new in them. Also, there was a common suggestion in many self help books that he had followed - namely, talking to those who had already become successful to see how they had done it - and the results of those conversations often not only ignored but often contradicted what he had read in self help. That alone left him a bit confused as to where these authors were getting their ideas from, and if he'd been suspicious before that none of them really lived the successful lives they were encouraging him to live, he became downright skeptical now.

So instead of continuing with his project of combing through his books for the gem in each of them, he wrote his own analysis of what those books were either missing or getting wrong. He realized that everything they relied on came down to a question, and it could be phrased in three parts. He spent a few years tweaking and adjusting the wording, and finally condensed his findings into The Right Question.