Book Description
#1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller
An award-winning psychologist and director of the UCLA Center for Digital Behavior show everyone how to make fundamental, lasting changes 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 behaviours—forever.
Whether it’s absent-minded mistakes at work, a weakness for junk food, a smartphone addiction, or a lack of exercise, everyone has some bad habit or behaviour 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 behavioural 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 behaviour, 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 behaviour 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 creating new habits and 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 "neuro hacks" 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 behaviour 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 behaviours—forever.