Stick with It: A Scientifically Proven Process for Changing Your Life--For Good
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (532 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1538453657 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 314 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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With Stick with It, Sean Young has come to the rescue, offering a system for generating lasting change that is both scientifically grounded and personally implementable. Sean Young breaks down the science behind behavior change and offers practical and effective strategies for changing your life.'' --Amy Morin, author of 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do. It's a winner.'' --Robert Cialdini, New York Times bestselling author of Influence and Pre-Suasion''It's a must-read for anyone who's been unable to keep a new yea
Dr. Read by Roger Wayne An award-winning psychologist and director of the UCLA Center for Digital Behavior shows everyone how to make real, lasting change in their lives in this exciting work of popular psychology that goes beyond The Power of Habit with science and practical strategies. But wanting to change and actually doing it -- and sticking with it -- are two very different things. Whether it's absent-minded mistakes at work, a weakness for junk food, a smart phone addiction, or a lack of exercise, everyone has some bad habit or behavior that they'd like to change. Young explains, you don't change behavior by changing the person, you do it by changing the process. He also helps us understand how the mind often interferes with creating lasting change and how we can outsmart it, including using ''neurohacks'' to shortcut the brain's counterproductive instincts. Drawing on his
Sean Young is a professor at UCLA medical school and the founder and executive director of the UCLA Center for Digital Behavior (CDB), which has been featured in the New York Times and Huffington Post, and on NPR, Yahoo Finance, TechCrunch, Mashable, CBS News, and other major media outlets. H
Ariel Dana Mcnichol said The best book in this genre - smarter, more powerful and complex - yet still fun to read.. I think I've read every book in the genre (I'm a behavioral science aficionado) and this book is superior. It reads delightfully, but more importantly, it's chocked full of relevant, recent, fascinating research that Sean has managed to synthesize into applicable bits. My page margin. "Stick with it is Helpful if You are a Chronic Procrastinato" according to Vishvendra. I bought Sean Young's book because I've been trying to find a way to stop procrastinating at work. A lot of the books that I've looked at including Stephen Covey's "7 Habits" . that one just has not resonated with me. I don't respond well to preset rules. I've been suffering at work . If you read the Power of Habit, you MUST read this! Eric Stick With It provides TREMENDOUS insight into what it takes to actually change behavior. It's great for someone who wants to break a bad habit in their own life, parents who want to help their kids, a coach who wants to help his team succeed, and entrepreneurs who want to have their