Redirect The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change (Audible Audio Edition) Timothy D Wilson Grover Gardner a division of Recorded Books HighBridge Books
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Why might some sex education programs result in more teen pregnancies? Why did reading that self-help book make you feel less happy? What's the best way to recover from trauma? Can we actually improve our lives by redirecting our thinking?
We tell ourselves stories to make sense of the world. These stories ultimately determine if we will lead healthy, productive lives or get into trouble. Renowned psychologist Timothy Wilson proposes a radical new view although these stories can be very hard to change, they can change - surprisingly quickly - if tweaked in the right way. He considers a broad range of problems, exposes failed attempts to solve them, and reframes them with new stories. Scientifically tested, his practical advice and simple techniques have been found to bring about real results including enhanced happiness, personal meaning, and social progress.
Redirect The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change (Audible Audio Edition) Timothy D Wilson Grover Gardner a division of Recorded Books HighBridge Books
Quite interesting and probably very useful - for the right reader audience. A worthy contribution to the science of social change for youth.What I was looking for, based on the title, was a well researched and tested treatise on helping adults (and teams) constructively redirect their inner stories away from their personal limitations and obstacles and toward achieving their bigger goals. Something similar in nature to Kelly McGonigal's "The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters and What You Can Do To Get More Of It", Carol Dweck's "Mindset: The New Psychology of Success" and Daniel Siegel's "Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation." Intuitively, the title of Timothy Wilson's "Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change" makes the book sound like it could be on the same shelf with these other self-understanding and personal transformation writings.
Certainly the first and third chapters, "Redirect: Small Edits, Lasting Changes" and "Shaping Our Narratives: Increasing Personal Well-Being" are what one might anticipate from Wilson's title. The second chapter, "Testing, Testing: Does It Work?" contributes additional food for thought ... but with controversial conclusions. Placebo effects are often found where human behavior and well-being are influenced by human perceptions and expectations! That said, Wilson's point is well made: we should define our expected results and measure to ensure that our interventions are making useful differences.
While the remaining seven chapters are very interesting, these chapters focus predominantly on either raising children or remediating youth social problems ... two very important areas of concern, however not the areas implied by the title. There are too few insights into helping adults `redirect their stories' toward increased well-being.
Where "Redirect's" apparent objective was in encouraging us to redirect our personal stories toward achieving more successful results, "Redirect's" more emphatic theme seems to be about scientific testing for intervention results. That said, I also believe there are many significant ideas within Wilson's writing.
I recommend Redirect with the caveat that many of the fundamental ideas may be significantly less applicable for use with `transforming' adult behaviors.
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Redirect The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change (Audible Audio Edition) Timothy D Wilson Grover Gardner a division of Recorded Books HighBridge Books Reviews
Here's a book that redeems the power and significance of the social sciences that some philosophers have found unnecessary and tautological. The thesis is that what sounds like it will work as an intervention to give up alcohol, associate with others with different backgrounds, religions, or skin color, or to help kids learn more effectively in school, may not work and certainly may not be worth the costs. Wilson illustrates the importance of empirical testing of such ideas with appropriately matched control groups only to find that some of our dearest solutions are feckless. And some ideas that may not sound so good work beautifully. If you only put pictures of wizened people on oxygen tanks on cigarettes packs--instead of warning messages--many more people might give up smoking.
"Just say no" made kids more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol. Tough love programs increase criminal activity among participants. And one of the worst things you can do for disaster survivors is have them talk about their feelings immediately after the incident.
Tim Wilson introduces these counterintuitive research findings and ties them together with his useful and powerful theory called story-editing. Parents can use story-editing to raise healthy and ethical children. Teachers can use story-editing to get their students to study harder. And psychologists can use story-editing to help trauma victims recover.
Wilson's premise is that we view our world through narratives, "narratives we construct about ourselves and the social world." We can improve our thinking by altering negative narratives. "Small changes in people's narratives," Wilson writes, "can have a lasting impact on their behavior." Wilson distinguishes his approach from self-help positive thinking advanced by Rhonda Byrne. Story-editing, unlike The Secret, has a robust scientific basis.
Wilson organizes the book into applications of theory. Here is a quick, overly simplified overview of some of the applications.
Parenting children Label kids as helpful to encourage them to focus on others. When they mess up, label their feelings as guilt. Give them latitude to make their own decisions. "The idea is to gently guide one's kids in the right direction while giving them the sense that they are making the choices themselves," Wilson writes. And don't use incentives that are overly powerful because your children will not develop internal motivation.
Teaching teenagers Get teenagers to engage in regular volunteer work. This gets to change their narrative from alienation to belonging.
Trauma victims Use the Pennebaker writing technique in which, after waiting some time after the event to gain some distance, write about the event for 15 minutes on each of four consecutive days. Wilson says, "this is a simple yet powerful way of making sense of confusing, upsetting episodes in our lives, giving us some closure and allowing us to move on." The key to this approach, Wilson says, is to achieve a detachment and distance from the event first and then write in order to interpret it differently.
Anyone looking for a happiness boost Use a twist on the gratitude journal by using the "George Bailey technique." Write about something you are grateful for by writing about all the ways the good thing might not have occured. Or try the "best possible self" exercise, in which you write about the best possible outcome for your future life.
Wilson also includes extended discussions of how story-editing can reduce college alcohol use, encourage cross-racial relations, and lessen the achievement gap. Wilson's approach makes intuitive sense, and it is backed up by dozens of research studies. According to Wilson, anyone can use this approach to raise happier children, teach students more effectively, and live a happier life. Plus, it helps us understand why previous strategies--like D.A.R.E. and post-trauma debriefing--did more harm than good.
Dr Wilson’s remedies for personal mental turmoil are evidence based recommendations. They worked with such effective results for me, I couldn’t be more enthusiastically pleased. Even contemplating a second of his exercises offered me almost immediate relief. A large share of his book relates to helping children with his methods. He offers extensive data on the effectiveness of that advice, so I trust parents and elementary teachers will find good solutions to dealing with youth in helpful, respectful ways. I am neither a father nor an educator, so my interest in that part of his book waned for me, but I would love to learn if people have success using the book’s methods.
Quite interesting and probably very useful - for the right reader audience. A worthy contribution to the science of social change for youth.
What I was looking for, based on the title, was a well researched and tested treatise on helping adults (and teams) constructively redirect their inner stories away from their personal limitations and obstacles and toward achieving their bigger goals. Something similar in nature to Kelly McGonigal's "The Willpower Instinct How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters and What You Can Do To Get More Of It", Carol Dweck's "Mindset The New Psychology of Success" and Daniel Siegel's "Mindsight The New Science of Personal Transformation." Intuitively, the title of Timothy Wilson's "Redirect The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change" makes the book sound like it could be on the same shelf with these other self-understanding and personal transformation writings.
Certainly the first and third chapters, "Redirect Small Edits, Lasting Changes" and "Shaping Our Narratives Increasing Personal Well-Being" are what one might anticipate from Wilson's title. The second chapter, "Testing, Testing Does It Work?" contributes additional food for thought ... but with controversial conclusions. Placebo effects are often found where human behavior and well-being are influenced by human perceptions and expectations! That said, Wilson's point is well made we should define our expected results and measure to ensure that our interventions are making useful differences.
While the remaining seven chapters are very interesting, these chapters focus predominantly on either raising children or remediating youth social problems ... two very important areas of concern, however not the areas implied by the title. There are too few insights into helping adults `redirect their stories' toward increased well-being.
Where "Redirect's" apparent objective was in encouraging us to redirect our personal stories toward achieving more successful results, "Redirect's" more emphatic theme seems to be about scientific testing for intervention results. That said, I also believe there are many significant ideas within Wilson's writing.
I recommend Redirect with the caveat that many of the fundamental ideas may be significantly less applicable for use with `transforming' adult behaviors.
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