Stick with It: A Scientifically Proven Process for Changing Your Life-for Good
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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 that can alter their problem behaviors—forever.
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. But wanting to change and actually doing it—and sticking with it—are two very different things.
Dr. Sean Young, an authoritative new voice in the field of behavioral science, knows a great deal about our habits—how we make them and how we can break them. Stick with It is his fascinating look at the science of behavior, filled with crucial knowledge and practical advice to help everyone successfully alter their actions and improve their lives.
As Dr. Young explains, you don’t change behavior by changing the person, you do it by changing the process. Drawing on his own scientific research and that of other leading experts in the field, he explains why change can be difficult and identifies the crucial forces that combine to make transformation permanent, from the right way to create new habits to how to harness emotional meaning to motivate change. 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. In addition he provides a powerful corrective to the decades old science of habits, offering a next generation discussion of how habits can change behavior with the right approach.
Packed with pragmatic exercises and stories of real people who have used them successfully, Stick with It shows that it is possible to control spending, stick to a diet, become more social, exercise regularly, stop compulsively checking e-mail, and overcome problem behaviors—forever.
Editor's Note
Kick bad habits to the curb…
If you’re looking for a practical, science-based guide on how to create lasting healthy habits, this is the book for you. Create transformative changes in your life, and kick bad habits to the curb permanently.
Sean D. Young
Sean Young is a UCLA medical school professor and the founder and executive director of the UCLA Center for Digital Behavior (CDB) and the UC Institute for Prediction Technology (UCIPT), which have been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and Science, and on NPR, Yahoo Finance, TechCrunch, Mashable, CNN, CBS News, and other major media outlets. He has a PhD in psychology and a master’s in health services research from Stanford University. He lives in Southern California.
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Reviews for Stick with It
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is an excellent book on how to change your habits, or even better, to start new, healthy ones. The author, Dr. Sean Young, has been researching how to change and/or start new habits and behaviors for around fifteen years, and he's come up with a list of methods on how to do this, which he calls S.C.I.E.N.C.E. (geeky, right?). Stepladders - making very small but continuous changes over timeCommunity - social connections offers supportImportant - making the change a serious priority in your lifeEasy - changing is easier when you make it easier to doNeurohacks - changing your behavior changes your mindCaptivating - if it's fun and rewarding, you will use it moreEngrained - repetition and routine makes it stick The more of these methods you use to change or start a new habit/behavior, the better the change will stick.Highly recommend this book if you are even slightly interested in changing habits.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I really fascinated with the chapter Easy, Captivating and Stepladder and NeuroHack. It is so easy to understand it. Hopefully, you might be interested in this book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Awsome book , now i can be a better grinder.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I wonderful read like no other on this subject. thanks for giving it to us!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wow! Just wow, this book really changed my life. I was expecting the usual stuff, but it really ended up surprising me. I really recommend it. 10/10
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5A lot of verbiage but nothing new. Work hard, stay with it, rewards for moving forward. Hours and hours to just hear commonplace info that people generally know.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Format:
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I didn’t see any logical explanation. But just a bunch of stories all about his friends! Ugh3 people found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Had to write a review because this book changed my life, it has the most actionable advice and information on how to change habits and why these methods work (based on science). Best book on habit forming I've ever read.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Superb.! This has techniques people can actually apply to businesses to get success.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An actionable and incredibly informative follow-up to the Power of Habit. I also loved Tiny Habits by James Clear, but I do find Sean's approach to be much more relevant and useful. Definitely must read both of these books if you're ready to shake up your life.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Will definitely be putting the 7 principles of SCIENCE to work. Great read.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5You should not miss out this book if you are looking forward to change your habit and your life. I like the way how this book is structure and little steps that explain well.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It's a good book but it's very repetitive and could have been a lot shorter.
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