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A prioritised list of questions your book has not answered yet — thin periods, missing detail, claims without evidence and more. Close each gap by answering, talking it through or asking Book Coach for help.
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The eight months between landing back in Auckland and the first paid hour are almost blank. What did an ordinary Tuesday look like in that time?
Why this question matters
This is the emotional centre of the book. Without daily texture the reader is told about the low point instead of living it.
- Reason
- Only one approved source covers 2019 to 2020, and Chapter 6 leans on a single voice note.
- Impact
- Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 both thin out here.
- Chapter
- Finding home again
- Sources
- Coming-home-voice-note.m4a
You describe the back step conversation with your mother, but never say what you understood about yourself afterwards. What changed in you that night?
Why this question matters
Reflection is what turns a scene into meaning. Readers forgive a hard story; they need the lesson.
- Reason
- Event e4 has a strong scene and an empty 'what changed' field.
- Impact
- Chapter 6 ending.
- Chapter
- Finding home again
- Sources
- Letters from Mum (typed up).docx
Chapter 11 says the four moves 'work for anyone starting again'. Which two people, other than you, can you show it working for?
Why this question matters
A method chapter is only as strong as its evidence. Two named examples make it credible.
- Reason
- No approved source supports the general claim in the framework chapter.
- Impact
- Chapter 11, and the publisher's source report.
- Chapter
- The Champion Reset method
- Sources
- The Champion Reset framework notes
What month and year did you actually leave Pune, and who drove you to the airport?
Why this question matters
Concrete dates and names let the reader trust every other detail in the book.
- Reason
- Event e3 has an approximate date only and no people recorded.
- Impact
- Chapter 5.
- Chapter
- Two bags and four hundred dollars
- Sources
- India-years-journal-scans.pdf, Reset Room podcast, episode 41.txt
How does the reader get from the first paid hour to running a leadership room? Right now Chapter 8 jumps two years.
Why this question matters
Unexplained jumps are where readers put a book down.
- Reason
- Chapters 7 and 10 share no linked events.
- Impact
- Chapter 8 into Chapter 10.
- Chapter
- Belief is a practice, not a feeling
- Sources
- First-clients-notebook-photos.pdf
'Shrink the step' needs one lived example from your own week. Which one?
Why this question matters
Every move in the method should be anchored in something that actually happened.
- Reason
- Framework move three has no story attached.
- Impact
- Chapter 11.
- Chapter
- The Champion Reset method
- Sources
- The Champion Reset framework notes
Answer (written)
The tender job. I could not face 'find work', so the step became 'send one message to one person before lunch'. That is the whole move.
Do you want your former employer named, or described by role only?
Why this question matters
This decision changes the legal read and the sensitivity review before submission.
- Reason
- Flagged in Chapter 4 notes and unresolved.
- Impact
- Chapter 4, publisher pack.
- Chapter
- The month it stopped working
- Sources
- Reset Room podcast, episode 41.txt
The wet carpark image appears in Chapter 5 and again in Chapter 6. Which chapter should keep it?
Why this question matters
A repeated image loses its power the second time.
- Reason
- Same phrasing detected in two chapter drafts.
- Impact
- Chapters 5 and 6.
- Chapter
- Two bags and four hundred dollars
- Sources
- Coming-home-voice-note.m4a