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This Book Could Fix Your Life

The Science of Self Help

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This Book Could Fix Your Life

By: New Scientist, Helen Thomson
Narrated by: Helen Thomson
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We all want to be happier, more successful and less stressed, but what really works?

From improving creativity to building confidence, self-care to self-esteem, forming better habits and feeling happier, Fix Your Life debunks the fads and explores the real science of self-help.

Can you learn to make better decisions?

Or break bad habits and form new ones?

What should you eat to feel happier?

How do you learn a skill faster?

Does mindfulness really work?

Dispelling mental health myths and self-help fads, here is the truth about meditation, making smarter choices, addiction, CBT, Tai Chi, success, diet, healthy relationships, anxiety, antidepressants, intelligence, willpower and much more.

Full of the latest research and ground-breaking evidence, packed with useful advice, this book really could fix your life.

(P) 2021 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd©2021 New Scientist Biological Sciences Creativity Personal Development Personal Success Science Health Mental Health Habits
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Critic reviews

Life-changing
An excellent all-round primer
Fascinating
All stars
Most relevant
It gave me the template to actively reflect, keep learning, accept myself, others, be more dynamic with my surroundings and change for the best. Happiness, joy and contentment.

It changed my life

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An excellent collection of science-based suggestions, collated by a respected New Scientist journalist, packed with information on a diverse range of issues and certainly well-written.

However, I don’t think the author was the best choice for reading the audio version of the book, as the performance was often rather clumsy, faltering and dull, delivered in a way that made me feel that, curiously, this was the first time the author had read her own words aloud! I would therefore recommend that you focus on the Kindle or paperback versions.

Recommended, and free from the hype from which so many self-help books suffer.

Excellent content, delivery could be better

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it reels u into believing readin/listening to this will change your life making u more positive but the only thing this book does do is make u so tired u fall asleep feeling so disappointed and let down. making u think shit about yourself that u wasted your time listening to some woman droon on about a load of twoddle

boring

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Listening to this is much like listening to any other self-help book written by anyone with a science background. They all think that if they can only state the problem, give a few examples, mention some research, and suggest some remedial action (which may, or may not, be proven to work), all will be well. Sadly, life, and the human brain, is more complicated than that.

It's a decent enough read, and well-narrated, but ultimately it adds little to the self-help genre,

Just another book from the self help factory

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