Jordan Weiss, MD takes on several important categories in his analysis. The first area to be discussed is Money, then Work and Career, then Gender Roles, Power and Control, Health, Personal Expression, Friendship, Spirituality, Sex, and Love. Some of the scenarios will present easy answers for the reader and others will present more difficult questions to answer, but answer them you must if you want to understand the internal rules that control your behavior.
The one thing that I did not like was that some of the scenarios don't offer enough information to choose one of the answers. For example, in the Gender Roles area there is a scenario that goes like this: "You serve in the military and are presently in combat. Your safety depends on the courage and skill of your superiors. An error in judgment could be fatal to one or more members of your squad. Your direct superior, who is a woman, commands a specific course of action. One of your team members - a man who is a highly experienced fighter - disagrees and refuses to comply. Who do you follow?" The answer choices are: "A) I trust my superior and I will obey her commands, B) I don't have confidence in my commanding officer; I feel better going with the man's opinion, or C) I have a tendency to trust the man's opinion, but to avoid court-martial, I will do what I am told." There is simply not enough information to make any kind of informed opinion. What is her experience level with actual combat? Why does the other experienced fighter have a problem with the command? Is his argument reasonable? Is her reason for the command reasonable? Does he not want to comply because he has a problem with her being in command or is there a legitimate reason? Was she ordered to issue her command from someone above her who is sitting safely elsewhere not even familiar with the current situation? There are so many possibilities that make a difference as to whether I would choose A or B that it is hard to choose either. Further information could move the decision solidly from one to the other. While he raises some very good scenarios and they can point to very good information about yourself, they often are not simple enough to be reduce to three possible answers. Of course, you pick the best that you can of the three and read all the explanations and perhaps it still sheds some light on your secret rules.
"Our Secret Rules" is a recommended read for those who want to examine their personal rules and how they affect their actions. The scenarios and choices, while not exhaustive, are at least illustrative of various internal rules. If you can't figure out which answer you would choose you can at least examine the underlying issues in the explanations.
For this book I would suggest that you enjoy the journey of discovery, but try not to overanalyze things too much as I often have a tendency to do (which I am sure is the result of some sort of other internal rule that I have).