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Four seconds : all the time you need to stop counter-productive habits and get the results you want

Description:	x, 258 pages ; 22 cm
Publisher:	New York, New York : HarperOne, [2015]
ISBN:	9780062372413 (hardback)
Edition:	First Edition.
1 of 1 copy available at NOBLE (All Libraries). Library Location Call number Status Winthrop Adult Nonfiction 158.1 Bre 2015 Available
▸"All too often our best efforts to accomplish the things we want most--to do our jobs well, to make ... meaningful contributions at home and at work, to have satisfying relationships with loved ones, friends, neighbors, and coworkers--are built on bad habits that sabotage us. We feel overwhelmed by our increasingly large to-do list, so we automatically multitask to get more done--and end up more stressed and more overloaded. We say something with the hopes of impressing the other person, but instead of offend them--then spend days trying to repair the damage. We give what we think is a pep talk to our team-- but they walk away demotivated.How can we be most effective and productive in a world that moves too fast and demands so much of us?In Four Seconds, Peter Bregman shows that the answer is to pause for as few as four seconds--the length of a deep breath--to replace bad habits and reactions with more productive behaviors. In his trademark style of blending personal anecdotes with practical advice, Bregman reveals some of our most common counter-productive tendencies and describes counter-intuitive strategies for acting more intentionally, including: Why setting goals can actually harm your performance How to use strategic disengagement to recover focus and willpower Why listening--not arguing--is the best strategy for changing someone's mind How taking responsibility for someone else's failure can actually help you succeed Drawn from Bregman's hugely popular Harvard Business Review blog, this engaging and wise book provides simple solutions to create the results you want without the stress"-- Read More

Predictably irrational : the hidden forces that shape our decisions

Description:	xxii, 280 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Publisher:	New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins Publishers, c2008.
ISBN:	9780061353239 (hardcover)
Edition:	1st ed.
12 of 13 copies available at NOBLE (All Libraries). Library Location Call number Status Beverly Main Adult Nonfiction HB 74 .P8 A69 2008 Available Danvers Adult Nonfiction (3rd Floor) HB 74 P8 A698 2008 Available Endicott College General Collection HB 74 .P8 A75 2008 Available Everett - Shute Memorial Adult Nonfiction 330/A698p Available
▸This evaluation of the sources of illogical decisions explores the reasons why irrational thought ... often overcomes level-headed practices, offering insight into the structural patterns that cause people to make the same mistakes repeatedly. In a series of illuminating, often surprising experiments, the author, a MIT behavioral economist, refutes the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways. Blending everyday experience withgroundbreaking research, he explains how expectations, emotions, social norms, and other invisible, seemingly illogical forces skew our reasoning abilities. Not only do we make astonishingly simple mistakes every day, but we make the same types of mistakes, he discovers. We consistently overpay, underestimate, and procrastinate. We fail to understand the profound effects of our emotions on what we want, and we overvalue what we already own. Yet these misguided behaviors are neither random nor senseless. They are systematic and predictable, making us predictably irrational. From drinking coffee to losing weight, from buying a car to choosing a romantic partner, he explains how to break through these systematic patterns of thought to make better decisions. This book offers ways to change the way we interact with the world one small decision at a time. Read More

Predictably irrational : the hidden forces that shape our decisions

Description:	xxxii, 368 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher:	New York, N.Y. : Harper, c2009.
ISBN:	9780061854545 (hardcover)
Edition:	Rev. and expanded ed.
1 of 1 copy available at NOBLE (All Libraries). Library Location Call number Status Melrose Closed Stacks Adult/YA Nonfiction 153 Ariely Available
▸This evaluation of the sources of illogical decisions explores the reasons why irrational thought ... often overcomes level-headed practices, offering insight into the structural patterns that cause people to make the same mistakes repeatedly. In a series of illuminating, often surprising experiments, the author, a MIT behavioral economist, refutes the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways. Blending everyday experience withgroundbreaking research, he explains how expectations, emotions, social norms, and other invisible, seemingly illogical forces skew our reasoning abilities. Not only do we make astonishingly simple mistakes every day, but we make the same types of mistakes, he discovers. We consistently overpay, underestimate, and procrastinate. We fail to understand the profound effects of our emotions on what we want, and we overvalue what we already own. Yet these misguided behaviors are neither random nor senseless. They are systematic and predictable, making us predictably irrational. From drinking coffee to losing weight, from buying a car to choosing a romantic partner, he explains how to break through these systematic patterns of thought to make better decisions. This book offers ways to change the way we interact with the world one small decision at a time. Read More