The Chimp Paradox: The Mind Management Program to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence, and Happiness Paperback Author: Steve Peters | Language: English | ISBN:
039916359X | Format: PDF, EPUB
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“Thank you, Steve Peters, for opening my eyes on how to approach my worries and fears…”
—Bradley Wiggins, Winner of Tour de France 2012
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“[The Chimp Paradox is] the mind program that helped me win my Olympic Golds.”
—Sir Chris Hoy, six-time Olympic champion
“Steve Peters is the most important person in my career.”
—Victoria Pendleton, Olympic Gold Medal-winning cyclist
“Dr. Steve Peters uses quite a bit of creative license in The Chimp Paradox to create layman-friendly applications for cutting-edge neuroscience—with spectacular results! Customers will welcome this exciting new approach to managing overeating, uncontrolled rage, and obsessive thinking, and the book’s scientific foundation, though simplified, is solid.”
—Retailing Insight
About the Author
Dr. Steve Peters is a Consultant Psychiatrist who specializes in optimizing the functioning of the mind. He is Undergraduate Dean at Sheffield University Medical School and the resident psychiatrist with the British Cycling and Sky ProCycling teams.
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- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Tarcher; Reprint edition (May 30, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 039916359X
- ISBN-13: 978-0399163593
- Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 8.2 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
I ended up scanning through this right after a luxuriating in a proper read of Kahneman's masterful "Thinking, Fast and Slow": what a contrast between the substance of Kahneman's book and the flimsiness here. I wondered if I'd been catapulted back to a self-help book from the 1980s - mostly built around an incorrect or incomplete theory - mainly hot air.
Peters introduces 3 parts of our brain: the emotional Chimp, the sensible and mature Human, and the Computer. The Chimp and Human often oppose each other and the Chimp can be dangerous and embarrassing. The book purports to provide tools to manage the Chimp - basically distractions or rewards. The author is a Dean at a provincial medical school in England. As he is also resident psychiatrist with professional cycling teams, presumably he has been experimenting on their cyclists with this theory. I note reviews here from cyclists who claim success, which I simply cannot believe, based on my extensive reading on emotions, motivation, success and happiness.
Some of the reviews claim this book can change your life. I disagree, based on hundreds of self-help books I have read over three decades and more; most bad, a few good (only those solidly based on research, like Kahneman's books). I cannot see how it would be possible for any advice in this book to work in the long term. There's no mention whatsoever of the reptilian part of our brain which hijacks most fight/flight/freeze situations whereas this book claims the Chimp brain is responsible. There's hardly any credit given to the vital contributions of the limbic ("Chimp") brain which is actually the seat of desire (aka motivation) and decision-making, neither of which is even hinted at in this book.
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