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Summary: The most approachable, practical text book you'll ever read
Review: I originally discovered this book as an assigned text for one of my courses in college. Most textbooks are dry and boring. This is one textbook I have kept and referred to often. I teach a workshop series titled "Sabotage to Success" and this book has been a rich source of information for me and my workshop participants. This book is "scientific", perfect for the skeptics of self-change, but you don't have to be a scientist to read it. The suggested projects are outlined clearly and methodically. The authors have taken pains to revise and renew the book, improving it with each edition. They listen to student input and even have a response form in the back of the book. I'm glad to see this book available on Amazon. I often recommend it to my workshop participants but haven't been able to refer them to a practical place to buy it. I paid at least $50 for this text in the University Bookstore. I wish there had been an Amazon.com when I bought it originally.
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Summary: self help book that really seemed to help
Review: Of course, if you have no common sense or will power, the book might help a little. Overall, I found it ridiculously boring. It is always amusing to me that one reads someone else's book for advice on how to help oneself. I don't get it... it is supposed to be self help, right?
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Summary: A practical book of self-help
Review: This book gives solid information on how a person can design and execute a successful plan of self-change. The book's strengths are that it gives clear, concrete strategies and that it contains an abundance of specific examples from real self-change case studies. The book could be improved by better writing--it's clear enough, it's just not great prose. Also, as a self-help book, it would be better if it were a little more concise. To be fair, however, the book is designed so that it can be used as a text in a course of self-directed behavior modification. Still, the motivated person will probably derive considerable benefit from the book's advice if they've ever wanted to change, but found themselves unable to do so. Of course, if that doesn't describe you or someone you want to help with the techniques of this book, why are you even considering it?
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Summary: self help book that really seemed to help
Review: This book is a step by step instruction guide of how to think before you act, which is easier said than done. It helped me to learn how to recognize when I'm starting a pattern behavior and opened up my mind up to thinking ahead of time different various ways to cope or react. I would recommend reading this book once all the way through & then going back more slowly and going through one chapter at a time while writing out your journal. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to make a change but doesn't know where or how to start.
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Summary: Behavior is not Being, don't feel threatened.
Review: This book is great for changing behaviors that are non-productive. As a former reviewer stated, it does require you to be much tougher with yourself than the usual self-help book. It also demands action, which is where most people have trouble. It is one thing to say you want to change something, but quite another to get off your bottom and do it!
I do not think you need to be "science-minded" to get the drift of this book. I find the scientific method laughable in much of the research, especially in psychology, where it has supposedly found "proof". What you have to be is willing to change your behavior. In my view, behavior does not constitute character. I could do without the smoking and the anxiety. I would never define myself as a smoker or an anxious person. The suggestions in the book simply make you more efficient at being the person you were meant to be. You take care of the lower processes then you can put your higher processing to work-meaning your thoughts, ambitions, dreams, goals, etc. Take the plunge, you won't be sorry. If it seems too simple, it's because it IS simple. Some of us could use the reminder. Just do it.
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