The Chimp Paradox: The Mind Management Program to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence, and Happiness [Kindle Edition] Author: Dr. Steve Peters | Language: English | ISBN:
B00AFPVO9Q | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Do you sabotage your own happiness and success? Are you struggling to make sense of yourself? Do your emotions sometimes dictate your life?
Dr. Steve Peters explains that we all have a being within our minds that can wreak havoc on every aspect of our lives—be it business or personal. He calls this being "the chimp," and it can work either for you or against you. The challenge comes when we try to tame the chimp, and persuade it to do our bidding.
The Chimp Paradox contains an incredibly powerful mind management model that can help you be happier and healthier, increase your confidence, and become a more successful person. This book will help you to:
—Recognize how your mind is working
—Understand and manage your emotions and thoughts
—Manage yourself and become the person you would like to be
Dr. Peters explains the struggle that takes place within your mind and then shows you how to apply this understanding. Once you're armed with this new knowledge, you will be able to utilize your chimp for good, rather than letting your chimp run rampant with its own agenda.
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- File Size: 1995 KB
- Print Length: 368 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 039916359X
- Publisher: Tarcher; Reprint edition (May 30, 2013)
- Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00AFPVO9Q
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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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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