Stick with It audiobook

This is the most helpful book I have ever read in my life, as a procrastinator, this book is a gem for me, almost all methods explained in this book are helpful, especially the stepladder (right first step and anchoring);, Easy (controlling environment, limit choices); Engrained; and Neurohacks. (I can't speak for Community and Captivating methods because I'm an introvert and self-employed, but I will also try it later)1. Stepladder (right first step and anchoring)I thought this is close to mindfulness, but it really works to make you stick with whatever you're doing; quoted from the book:".. “Forget about the mountain, he said. “Forget about the ladders, and stop thinking about getting to the top,” he said. “Don’t try and plan ahead. Just focus on the next step of the ladder.”The lesson is to focus on finding the right first step. Put all of your energy into achieving that first little step. Take the time to reflect on your progress. And then repeat..."2. Easy (controlling environment, limit choices)I practiced the easy method by maintaining my healthy foods, sleep, and exercises; So, in the middle of working/studying I won't have any reason to procrastinate (usual reasons: hungry, sleepy, etc)Also, I often disable my internet connection during studies, I control the condition: turning the internet on will require some efforts, thus I'm not wasting my time surfing the internet during book studies.quoted from the book:“if you’re having trouble sticking with something, remove whatever is stopping you from doing it. It’s that easy.”3. Engrained and NeurohacksI don't know how I mixed these two methods, but personally I think those are really connected.I never imagine this method will work for me, but it works, for example, now I have my routines in sequence, and those are good habits; A Cue -> Magnetic behaviourA Routine -> Neurohack, Chain linksA Reward -> Fascinating (Captivating, Important)quoted from book: "... I call this creating a “chain link” because the more days in a row a person does something, the stronger the chain link becomes."And many more on this books; Really, if you are a procrastinator or you have a habit of starting project(s), but not finishing them?Don't hesitate to buy this rare book, chances that you'll have the benefit of most of the methods are high, and also I recommend the book by Joanna Jast: Not Another Motivation Book: A Pragmatist's Guide to Nailing Your Motivation, Keeping It, and Effortlessly Achieving Your Goals, both books are helping me tremendously.PS: What works for one person may not works for others; but seriously, give this book a chance.

Probably the greatest, most insightful and helpful, self-help book I have discovered to date. How amazing it is to come across something where the science is sound!

Really helpful brain science behind creating good habits and overcoming bad ones. I can see reading this again in the future for another burst of motivation.

For the last 17 years, I've again and again sought to form good habits and break bad ones, I've regularly been embroiled in the perennial struggle of trying to motivate my higher human self to not bow the knee before the animal within with its unquenchable ambition to be my tyrannical king. Of course, if I could ever manage to "stick with it" I wouldn't have listen to this audiobook, yet much of what the book touched upon are things that I've found over the years have helped me stick with something, but only for a time. I definitely have learned through trial and error that I must make it small steps, make it easy, and that community and certain brain hacks are essential in the process. The principles mentioned in this book have worked for me, helping me stick with something for months, sometimes even a few years. It seems the problem is to change and to continue to remain after one has changed, one must care, and some days it is like care isn't there, and when this happens, it can be a long while before I again care enough to try again. I must truly see and feel how important something is, before I can find much willingness to take small steps forward and follow the principles in the book. I remember reading "Spark" a book about exercise and the brain, and this book was the spark that resulted in my regularly running, this until my knees, hips, sheen splints, back and feet all were so hell bent to keep me indoors, hindering me from even walking. Once it became so difficult and painful to exercise, I stopped, until I gradually again worked up the sense of the importance and sought to found other ways to keep my heart rate up. Eventually though I got too busy, or it got too hot, or too cold, or I broke a rib after being tossed off a bike, etc... and again my world is thrown out of orbit. After the train is derailed it often is a long while before I finally can work up the motivation to prop the train back up.

Stick with it is Helpful if You are a Chronic ProcrastinatorI bought Sean Young's book because I've been trying to find a way to stop procrastinating at work. A lot of the books that I've looked at including Stephen Covey's "7 Habits" .... that one just has not resonated with me. I don't respond well to preset rules. I've been suffering at work because I can't meet my deadlines. I love my job but I keep pushing things to the last minute and my teammates hate it. Actually, I also hate it. Sean Young's book "Stick with it" has some pretty cool ideas about setting the right-sized steps to achieve what you want. His chapter on stepladders is all about figuring out what you can actually pull off and when. This has enabled me to prioritize my time and also expectations that I give to other people.

Very informative, a lot of scientific background and logic solutions. One of the strongest reinforcements I found was that you become what you do on a regular basis, mind will also follow body, not only the other way round

** spoiler alert ** Dr. Young SCIENCE Approach is a Great Tool for EducatorsI am a high school teacher. I often ask myself why my students never turn their papers in on time. Is it because I am too nice to my students? Do I need to be more strict? According to Stick with it, Dr. Young says there is no one size fits all approach for all students. Behavior psychology demands a multi prong approach. I like the idea of using different tools, like community pressure and stepladders, for different students, based on different benchmarks. The book comes with helpful worksheets and charts. These are focused on individual readers and not on groups which would make it more useful. Still, a good read overall.

I got a lot out of this book and will keep re-reading certain passages to keep the techniques fresh in my mind. Unlike a previous reviewer, I've not read many goal setting books, so this was interesting to me. It parallels Duckworth's Grit that I recently finished. Easy, conversational tone that is definitely aimed at the layperson wishing to change up their life. I appreciate that he is an actual scientist and not another motivational speaker giving you a pep talk.

** spoiler alert ** Great Book If You Pay For Weight Loss Products and Don't Use ThemDr. Young's Stick With It gave me some really great ideas on how to deal with my weight loss issues. I tried Weight Watches, Nutrisystem, Atkins, blablabla. The problem is that I am the kind of person that signs up for a program, pays for the program and then never uses it. The book helped me understand and realize that a lot of people do that. There are some nice charts and worksheets that describe what you need to do design a process to stick with lifestyle changes. In my case, I need to stop making unhealthy food choices so easy (check out the EASY chapter).

Awesome book. I really like how positive Sean Young is about this whole project and I love "experiencing" how optimistically he views the human condition through his writing. A lot of it is watered down and massively simplified b/c it's a pop-sci book, but you still get glimpses of his personality in there. As for the content, I wasn't actually a fan of his rubric for behaviour change while I was reading it. It seemed quite contrived and forced into the "SCIENCE" acronym. And, I was thinking my scheme I use with my clients is actually better, lol, and I know how stupid that sounds. Lemme explain though.My scheme is this:~1st line of defence: Stimulus removal (Complete environmental shift or removal of the thing you want to stop doing)~2nd line of defence: Impulse tuning (Manipulating environment and cognition to make graded reductions in the "pull" you feel towards bad behaviour, and additions to the "push" you feel towards good behaviour. This line of defence contains a gazillion strategies. Accountability partner, precommitment, habit stacking, proximal goals, etc.)~3rd line of defence: Maximising descending inhibition (Maximising your willpower/ability to control your impulses. Sleeping better, avoiding negative emotional states, practising gratitude, etc.)And that's it. 3 lines of defence. Which is why I was patting myself on the back with the simplciity of my model compared to Sean's, and I've seen mine benefit people before. Towards the end of this book, I got off my high-horse and realised that Sean's model and mine are describing the same thing, he's just laying on what I would call "2nd lines of defence". Tuning impulses up or down by chunking down goals (STEPLADDERS), social accountability (COMMUNITY), thinking about your reason why (IMPORTANT), controlling environment (EASY), using cognitive-dissonance to your advantage (NEUROHACKS), making the behaviour more rewarding (CAPTIVATING), and habit stacking or consistency in repetition (ENGRAINED). So while I was using different words, it's all the same shit. Kinnnnd of worrying that I've exhausted the main strategies out of the behaviour change literature. Hopefully there's more out there. I've only been studying this for a year. The chapter on Neurohacks was all new to me - I haven't read anything about applying that cognitive dissonance to behaviour change before and so found it fascinating. Will be using that with clients fo' sho'.If you didn't notice, these steps spell out "SCIENCE", which again, I find contrived. And I can almost "feel" that Mr. Young was pressured by editors to change his writing style a lot, but it does actually make it easier to remember, and at the end of the day I like it a lot. Another thing I liked was his idea that change strategies can be systematically different based on aspects of the behaviour you're trying to change. Usually, I approach each behaviour afresh, but this will give me a rubric to apply so I'm not going in blind.Obligatory 5 stars given how disproportionately little attention is given to behaviour change. There should be at LEAST 20 great scientists writing about this topic for the general audience, but I don't think there are even 20 great scientists who study behaviour change full stop. Sean Young is definitely one though!! Great book.

Stick with It provides INCREDIBLE insight into what one really has to do to change his/her life. It's great for someone who wants to break a bad habit in their own life, parents who want to help their kids, a coach who wants his players to succeed, and entrepreneurs who want their products to be used. Unlike most of the typical self-help books, which only motivates people to change their lives, ”Stick with it” provides scientific proven methods and techniques to do so.“Stick with It” is for people who decide to do something, but procrastinate it until they set it aside and forget about it or people who are always planning to do things, and they even start doing those things like Gyming or dieting, but then they get bored and quit. But why? To find the scientific answer to this universal question, this book is a perfect guide. Not only this book will tell you the reasons behind it, but it will also provide you with the methods of overcoming those reasons. The book will tell you how one can plan short-term goals and use them to achieve his/her long-term goal. One of the most effective content in this book is Young's SCIENCE model. It's based on evidence and focuses on specific learning objectives for the readers. For instance; If you want to give up late night cravings, you'd have to change your sleeping regiment, work on the things that cause you to eat and /sleep at weird hours. This model has worked wonders for many people.One of the most engaging thing about this masterpiece is the different stories in each chapter. The stories are about people trying to break their habits and how it affects their every day when they do “stick with it” and keep going. The lightness of this book is the reason for its popularity. Because most of the books in this genre are filled with scientific jargon. But this book is easy to understand for a common person and is totally relatable with their lives.The writing style of Sean is no doubt engaging and captivating. Filled with a little touch of humor to relax the reader and make him/her connect with the contents of the book. Because the connection between reader and the book is the key to understanding.Few Last Words:When you read the book don’t expect your life to change overnight. Because this book will bring positive and big changes to your life and big changes take some time. When you start reading the book just let it sink in and apply the methods and techniques provided by Sean if you really want to start "sticking with it”.

This is a must-read for entrepreneurs, not only he gives great business examples, the book and author Sean Young gives you that SCIENCE to make it happen.We read often on how habits are part of success, which very successful people use habits etc. And Yes, I believe strongly in the power habits. I also am smart and conscious enough to see that most of the books talk about habits and .... some of the habits I can follow thru....Also, I had it with people who tell me you need to dream it, visualize it and it will come. I knew this was not true. Yes, I visualize my dream, but I made steps and I made some action and only then I saw my dream was coming closer.This book explains how you can take "action" to make your habits last. Finally!!!!!A second reason why I love this book so much, it is a book that doesn't write about the typical habits. The author Sean Young writes about how cults attract members (don't we all want our customers to adore our brand?) Or how we can learn from veterans with PSTD syndrome overcome their post-war difficulties and how he and h team build successful communities related to HIV and Cocaine addicts. How this fit for your business, you would be surprised. The techniques Sean Young describes are always applicable to business and to your success and in every chapter, he gives business examples!. So enjoy your dreams, cut into goals and steps and use the SCIENCE method to make it happen. Step 1. Read this book!

Turn your life around by creating good habits that stick. The author Sean Young discusses in this newly published book "Stick with It - A Scientifically Proven Process for Changing Your Life", how you can change bad habits into good habits and - stick with it. Young draws on his own research and experience and provides great examples about the psychology and forces behind habits. His approach is explained through his 7-step program, or 7 forces, that are: Stepladders; Community; Important; Easy; Neurohacks, Captivating; Engrained. Different problems (habits) require different solutions. The task is to find out which force is needed when, and to apply it. One small but significant details that was my take-away from this book is understanding the difference between dreams, goals, and steps. It is good to have dreams, it is good to have goals (long term and short term goals), but we should really focus on the small steps on a day to day basis. I have read a few books about this topic and my favourite still is 'The Power of Habits', but Young's book comes close. It is well researched and gives great insights for anybody interested to turn his life around.

Anyone who wants to improve and live a better more satisfying and productive life should read this book and practice what it suggests. The book is by a medical school professor who has had repeated successes using what he speaks about in this volume. He tells readers how to change their behavior. He stresses that people need to change the process, not the person. He describes seven psychological forces that undergird lasting behavior changes and does so in a clear fashion and with stories that reflect results. He tells the steps that one must take, how to be motivated, how to deal with people in a way that helps a person who wants to change and how conventional ideas about change do not work. He writes that a person needs to know why people do things, start with small steps, learn to harness the power of the community, understand the concept of what is important and use it, discover how to make things easy, change actions not thoughts, grasp how to convince one’s self to keep doing what is right, use the power of efficiency, and a lot more.