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The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World
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Author:
David Robson
Publisher:
Henry Holt and Co.
Date:
February 15, 2022
A journey through the cutting-edge science of how our mindset shapes every facet of our lives, revealing how your brain holds the keys to unlocking a better you.
What The Reviewers Say
Robson presents numerous tricks of the mind to move us forward, including visualization and reframing our beliefs about progress.
... one of Robson’s many strengths as a chronicler of science is to take what might seem familiar and show – to his own evident excitement, as well – just how much deeper the rabbit hole goes. You knew about the placebo effect. But did you know it often works, a little mind-bendingly, even when the patient knows they’re taking a placebo?.
At times this self-help element feels like an afterthought. Thinking about how I hope to feel at the end of a run isn’t going to persuade me to get off the sofa.
... absorbing.
