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flex: Do Something Different by Ben (C) Fletcher and Karen J Pine

flex: Do Something Different by Ben (C) Fletcher and Karen J Pine

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Imagine being able to handle whatever life throws at you with ease.

Our habits, which help form our personality, undermine our ability to rise to new challenges. Most of our actions are based on old behavioural patterns so instead of coming up with new strategies, we're stuck on autopilot. And the more fixed our personality is, the harder we find it to adapt to change or to the new. No wonder we often feel overwhelmed, unhappy or stressed.

We all have a far greater range of behaviours at our disposal than we realise but we limit our life by using just 1/10th of our personality. The other 9/10ths of our tools for life lie dormant in our brain's toolbox. flex will show you how to start using them.

flex is about taking charge of ourselves and not slipping onto autopilot. A person who can flex, using different behaviours appropriately, will feel at ease in any situation. The key to being able to flex is to Do Something Different, to disrupt the brain's habits. When you can flex your personality you will feel more in control, happier and less stressed. flexing will help you to achieve more in life too.

Find out about the science behind the Do Something Different behaviour-change technique that is helping to transform people's lives. And experience for yourself the endless possibilities it can open up for you.

Ben (C) Fletcher and Karen Pine are both Professors of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire and renowned experts in behaviour change. Their Do Something Different technique is highly successful in helping people make the changes they want, including losing weight, tackling stress, stopping smoking and improving health and wellbeing. Their other books include The No-Diet Diet, Sheconomics and Love Not Smoking.

ISBN 978-1-907396-54-0, Jan 2012, 184pp, Paperback

“I recommend this book to anyone interested in making serious changes, or in helping others make changes.” Changing People

Contents

Section 1 – The human habit machine  
1.  How many kinds of people are there? 2
2.  The personality trap 4
3.  People on autopilot 6
4.  flexing 8
5.  People shrink their worlds 10
6.  We are all capable of change 11
7.  Shaping a life 13
8.  Why the past doesn't help our future 15
9.  We are all habit machines 17
10.  Habits come in many forms 18
11.  The myth of willpower 20
12.  Becoming habit-free 21
13.  Inertia and the status quo bias 22
14.  The pull of the past 23
15.  Shaping a new self 25
16.  Show me a stressed person and I'll show you a habit machine 26
17.  Small changes, big consequences 28
18.  Alleviating stress 30
flex in action – The habit-rater 31
– Understanding your habits 31
– Scoring your habit-rater 32
– Interpreting your habit-rater score 33
– flex yourself – Do Something Different 38
Section 2 – Behavioural flexibility  
19.  The birth of FIT Science 42
20.  Inner FITness – constancies 45
21.  Awareness 46
22.  Fearlessness 47
23.  Self-responsibility 49
24.  Balance 51
25.  Conscience 53
26.  Harmony among the constancies 55
27.  Outer FITness – behavioural flexibility 58
28.  Behavioural dimensions 60
29.  Doing the right thing 61
30.  The stress and inefficiency zone 62
31.  Behaving differently with different people 64
32.  The optimal behavioural range 66
33.  Making the most of a situation includes you too 67
34.  flex transition – relabelling feelings and repetition 68
35.  Moving on and expanding tastes too 69
36.  Back to stress and the discomfort zone 71
37.  New behaviours have effects on others 72
38.  Does a leopard change its spots? 73
flex in action – The behaviour-rater 75
– Understanding your behaviour 75
– Scoring your behaviour-rater 76
– Interpreting your behaviour-rater score 80
– flex yourself – Do Something Different 81
Section 3 – Doing something different, personal coherence and decision-making  
39.  Do Something Different 102
40.  What does a Do Something Different intervention look like? 104
41.  How does Do Something Different work? 108
42.  Interactions between the two selves 109
43.  Experiencing and reflecting on our own development 110
44.  The ‘golden rules’ for behaviour change 112
45.  Bringing about long-term behaviour change 114
46.  Coherence comes from doing the right thing 116
47.  Towards greater personal coherence 117
48.  Levels of coherence 119
49.  How personal coherence has consequences over time 122
50.  Coherence units 124
51.  Apparent and real incoherence 125
52.  Why greater coherence leads to better decisions 127
53.  Choices do get made, even if we feel we don't make them 129
54.  The myth about decision-making 131
55.  Choice/decision is illusory 133
56.  Why people get paid for making ‘big decisions’ 135
57.  DSD and decision-making 136
58.  Why does DSD improve decisions? 137
59.  People are not choice machines 139
60.  Self-lying and self-deception 140
flex in action – The coherence-rater 141
– Understanding your coherence 141
– Scoring your coherence-rater 142
– Interpreting your coherence-rater score 143
– flex yourself – improve your coherence 144
Section 4 – Global issues and flex  
61.  A modest claim – flex can change the world! 158
62.  Advantages of flex at a personal level 159
63.  Advantages of flex for the organisation 161
64.  Advantages of flex in the social domain 163
65.  flex and world issues 167
flex in action – challenge 169
Appendix 170
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