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Most self-help books encourage you to think differently, to think yourself thin, imagine a richer self or visualize the perfect you. This is difficult and time consuming and often doesn't work.
Drawing on a dazzling array of scientific evidence, psychologist Richard Wiseman presents a radical new insight that turns conventional self-help on its head: simple physical actions represent the quickest, easiest and most powerful way to instantly change how you think and feel. So don't just think about changing your life. Do it.
Rip It Up, by Richard Wiseman - Amazon Sales Rank: #66708 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-09-04
- Released on: 2015-09-04
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 476 minutes
Rip It Up, by Richard Wiseman
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. This book blasts typical self-help advice and offers refreshing and simple common sense advice: FEELINGS ARE SHAPED BY BEHAVIOR By Marku This book might be even better than his first book, 59 Seconds. Mr. Wiseman simply blasts your typical sell-help advice about using visualizations, affirmations, hypnosis and other inner game tools. You change your inner self when you change the way you ACT/BEHAVE.According to Mr. Wiseman, behavior is everything. I've spent so many years using different self-help theories, which over-complicate everything and don't deliver any results. But Mr. Wiseman confirmed what common sense suggests: change the way you act.That famous actor who played a Nazi in the movie 'Schindler's List' (I am not sure if it was that movie or another famous Nazi movie) said that he couldn't wait for the filming to finish. When he was asked 'why', he said that 'acting like a ruthless Nazi officer for the past few weeks has changed me internally; I feel like I am becoming a ruthless Nazi'.Force yourself to smile and you will feel happier. Start badmouthing someone to other people and you'll start disliking that person. Hug a stranger and you'll find that you have some emotional affection for that person. Pretend to flirt with someone and you'll find that you're starting to like the person.Of course, every claim that Mr. Wiseman makes is substantiated by simple scientific evidence (in the form of experiments that any average person could conduct). I wish I had read this book instead of 30 other books on self help. This one is based on evidence and common sense. And most importantly, the advice works!I am now going to quote myself about what I said for Mr. Wiseman's previous book, 59 Seconds, since the same quote applies to this book too.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A very wise man has said "Studies either confirm what common sense suggests or they are wrong (except in some rare cases)." This book proves that. When you read most conclusions for the various advice of Mr. Wiseman, you will realize that most of the conclusions are common sense. The Self-Help movement unfortunately doesn't follow this rule since their solutions are usually very illogical but they sound sophisticated because they are written in Woo-Woo New-Age lingo and that's why people think that they are profound.Here is another quote from that same wise man that I mentioned in the previous paragraph: "One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound." (Dennis Prager)------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
17 of 24 people found the following review helpful. Adds flesh to the bones of other books By James Taylor I had mixed feelings about this book and its borrowings from mainstream psychological research, largely because I feel that psychologists so often suffer from something they themselves call `Confirmation Bias'. I.e. they seem to conduct experiments to prove a `hunch' they have, then they selectively interpret the results to show that their hunch was correct, ignoring any evidence to the contrary. In addition to this they so often research topics where the conclusion is already obvious to any socially functioning human being. A critical thinker could spend a lot of time discussing the validity of many of the conclusions. And then again, in this book we are told that pretending to be a fighter pilot will improve your vision by 40% (p331). Wow. Those who need glasses can throw them away after a visit to an RAF base.Maybe this is too cynical an appraisal of the profession. A lot of sound material has come out of psychological research and there is a lot of interesting material that is reasonably well accepted as correct and of practical value. Granted, many talented people have offered valuable contributions to the field, too many to name here. But when an experiment takes place there is usually a vested interest in the way the results turn out, and if you google many topics of research you will find a multitude of competing theories, often contradicting each other, each theory being supported by experimental results.Re horses and carts - the William James quote used here is 'You do not run from a bear because you are afraid of it, but rather become afraid of the bear because you run from it'. This is obviously wrong. We assess the situation, become afraid (if appropriate), our body prepares for flight, and only then do we run. We first have to recognise that the bear is dangerous and poses a threat, and this recognition of danger is the central trigger. When we have assessed that it is not a harmless cuddly animal, a complex set of interactive responses take place to make us run for our lives. The assessment of danger triggers fear, and with it comes the fight-or-flight response of increased heart rate etc. The beating heart comes after the assessment and before the running because this is the body preparing to run. Alternatively, had we recognised Winnie the Pooh we would have invited him for tea, without the beating heart or running behaviour. In fact, apart from certain phobic reactions, we usually have to assess whether or not to be afraid of something and it's a bit silly to suggest otherwise. If I felt afraid of something because I was running away from it I would be afraid of my house when I ran away from it to catch a bus in the morning. I think that William James presented the idea to provoke thought and didn't intend it to be taken literally.William James's big idea was that by concentrating not on what is true, but on what is useful to believe, we might change for the better. This is NLP!However, in spite of my cynicism I did like this book. Okay, the idea of acting out a role is not new, back in the 50s Erving Goffman had the idea that we act out roles in life. Similarly, the idea that we align our beliefs with our actions is down to Cognitive Dissonance - Festinger 1957 - we cannot hold two conflicting beliefs, so if we are aware that our actions contradict our some part of our personality we will sometimes change our self-image to accommodate the action. Also this aligns with Cialdini's idea of Consistency - if we see ourselves as a certain sort of person, we will behave in line with our beliefs. David Lieberman points out that if you want help with something, the request is more likely to be accepted if framed `Dave, I know you're a helpful person, could you give me a hand with xxxx?' The compliment here is being taken on board to form a positive self-image, and the person will act in line with this self-image of a helpful person, so similarly, if you believe that you are a certain type of person you will tend to behave in line with this belief. Cialdini's principle seemed broad enough to accommodate our tendency to stick with a decision even when confronted with conflicting evidence, an idea Leon Festinger had voiced earlier. This also ties in with fear of loss, and with unwillingness to let go of something when an investment has been made (re the work of Kahneman and Tversky 'sunken cost', also Cialdini 'Scarcity') - there is quite a lot of circularity here, but the emphasis gradually drifts from self-image to stubbornness and becomes less relevant to Wiseman's book. Also check out Daryl Bem's self-perception theory - we observe our own actions and make judgments about ourselves in the same way that we observe other people and make character judgments about them.The NLP idea of modelling is all about learning how to do something by modelling our behaviour on highly competent people - back to Goffman. The 'model' can be real or fictitious, the behaviour may be an attitude, skill, or state of mind. This idea has increased relevance with the recent discovery of `Mirror Neurons' (when we observe, or even merely imagine an intentional action being performed, our own neural systems will show a trace of copying the observed behaviour), a discovery which would suggest that modelling could indeed be very useful. This NLP idea would appear to be the same as the central theme of this book, pretending facilitates becoming, although I don't recall seeing any reference to it. But didn't Wiseman `debunk self-help myths' like NLP philosophies when he wrote 59 seconds?So to summarise, although I am a born cynic, I think that the theme is valid, and I think that there is enough good material in here to make the book a valuable addition to any self-help junkie's library. The theme isn't new, and some of the experiments cited will raise your eyebrows, and a few will make you groan, but all of the experiments will add depth to the other books you've read that offer similar advice. I feel that this book has got a place in self-help literature for this reason, and I would highly recommend it.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. As if, fake it until you make it! By Simon Laub According to Richard Wiseman, you shouldn't think about changing how you think and feel,you should just act as if you were the person you want to be!I.e. fake it until you make it! Want to feel happier? Force yourself to smile! Want to be more confident? Stand in a confident pose! etc.Indeed, it's far easier to change the way we act than changing the way we think.And, interesting, a change in thinking might follow right after a change in acting.Richard Wiseman is inspired by american philosopher and psychologist William James.In one thought experiment, James considered the question, do we run from a bear because we are afraid or are we afraid because we run? And came up with the idea, that the obvious answer, that we run because we are afraid, was wrong, and instead argued that we are afraid because we run.Our minds perception is the emotion.Wiseman takes it further: So, to feel in love, all you simply need to do is act ''as if'' you're in love and let your body physiology and sub conscious do the rest...In the book, Wiseman gives us many examples that seems to indicate that this is actually true. I especially enjoyed Joshua Ian Davis work with women who had just undergone treatment with Botox injections. Botox might give a more youthful appearance, but it will also allow fewer facial expressions. And sure enough, inhibiting peoples behaviour and facial expressions prevents them from feeling certain emotions...Memory is also affected. According to experiments by Simone Schnall and James Laird, when people adopted a happy facial expression, they tended to remember more positive moments from their lives, and when they looked sad, they were inclined to remember more negative moments.Procrastination often stops people from doing well in many aspects of life. According to James: ''Nothing is so fatiguing, as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.''The answer is straightforward using the ''as if'' perspective - By working on an activity for ''for just a few minutes'' (that is, as if you are a highly motivated person), changes the way we see ourselves, and make it far more likely that we will complete the task at hand.Great stuff, and remember, everything in this book actually builds on well documented research. Following Richard Wisemans advice might actually make us just a little happier, make us procrastinate less, reduce our stress levels etc.
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