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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
This is something I definitely needed as someone who struggles with negative self-talk. I'll leave it at that. The bottom line is that positive self-talk is like learning a language: it can be strange and tough, but with time, it starts to become a part of you. That was simple yet rings so true.
This is a book that has the tropes of the self help genre, but it’s accessible to the layman that it’s sure to be helpful.
The basic idea is that changing your outlook can make a difference. It won’t solve all your problems, but it will help you be resilient when problems do arise.
I’m so glad to have listened to this book on audio.
This is a book that has the tropes of the self help genre, but it’s accessible to the layman that it’s sure to be helpful.
The basic idea is that changing your outlook can make a difference. It won’t solve all your problems, but it will help you be resilient when problems do arise.
I’m so glad to have listened to this book on audio.
This book is genuinely helpful. I have read and watched The Secret in the past, and while that has introduced me to the idea of positive self-talk, I feel that it did not provide proper explanation or easy exercises to implement in daily life. This book is backed my science and statistics to educate on the topic of self-talk. I listened to the audiobook, which also included mini interviews with the author (very helpful). I feel as if I can implement some of the ideas and exercises into my life. Just since listening to the book, I feel my perspective and awareness of my thoughts has drastically improved, which is one of the first steps to change. This book gets 5 stars for the neuroscience, statistics, examples, and layman’s terms to help educate and influence my willingness and understandings. In short, I loved it and think everyone should read or listen! Our thoughts impact everything. It is our jobs to clean our minds and create a happy and positive space to live in everyday. Repetition is key. If you don’t believe it now, you will one day - just keep talking positively.
First of all, this book is an advertisement for his self talk app.
Second of all the app and the book are not Terrible. As most motivational/productivity guru type things are generally based on good ideas.
Third of all, the author is not a “Doctor”. His degree was from a diploma by mail school in the 80s. He does not have nor has he ever had a license to practice psychology. A PHD in “motivational psychology” is not a thing.
I listened to the audiobook trying to find some good practices on positive self talk. The audiobook is about 5 hours long and he doesn’t actually start teaching you “what to say when you talk to yourself” until about 3 and a half hours in. And even then it is pretty light and it always comes back to pushing you to listening to his $20/month self talk app, which are just the recordings he used to sell back in the 80s on his infomercials.
There is a 30 day trial for the app so I’ve been giving it a go and the audio there is not bad. In conjunction with my therapy I’ve found it good and challenging to my own self talk.
There are principles in this book and app that are good. But they aren’t fleshed out and they tend to over state the results they can bring. Changing your negative self talk can take work, more work than just listening to some audio tracks for 15 minutes a day. Sometimes it requires therapy. Sometimes it even requires the support of medication.
I would never recommend this book to anyone but I am on the look out for a book that does something similar to this in dealing with self talk in such a direct way.
Second of all the app and the book are not Terrible. As most motivational/productivity guru type things are generally based on good ideas.
Third of all, the author is not a “Doctor”. His degree was from a diploma by mail school in the 80s. He does not have nor has he ever had a license to practice psychology. A PHD in “motivational psychology” is not a thing.
I listened to the audiobook trying to find some good practices on positive self talk. The audiobook is about 5 hours long and he doesn’t actually start teaching you “what to say when you talk to yourself” until about 3 and a half hours in. And even then it is pretty light and it always comes back to pushing you to listening to his $20/month self talk app, which are just the recordings he used to sell back in the 80s on his infomercials.
There is a 30 day trial for the app so I’ve been giving it a go and the audio there is not bad. In conjunction with my therapy I’ve found it good and challenging to my own self talk.
There are principles in this book and app that are good. But they aren’t fleshed out and they tend to over state the results they can bring. Changing your negative self talk can take work, more work than just listening to some audio tracks for 15 minutes a day. Sometimes it requires therapy. Sometimes it even requires the support of medication.
I would never recommend this book to anyone but I am on the look out for a book that does something similar to this in dealing with self talk in such a direct way.