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Master Your Mind: Counterintuitive Strategies to Refocus and Re-Energize Your Runaway Brain Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

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Master Your Mind offers a bit of perspective and a lot of insight for anyone seeking long-term success. Success in business is spelled M-O-R-E: better results, faster growth, more revenue, greater efficiency. Do more. Make more. Achieve more. And do it now. Eventually, ambition turns to stress, then to frenzy, then to emptiness as once-ambitious workers endlessly trudge the hamster wheel chasing the next promotion. While top-level performance is the holy grail of business at all levels, there is another, much better way to achieve it: slow down.

Slowing down is not a luxury, it is a necessity. A frenetic brain simply doesn't perform at optimal levels. By maintaining a snail's pace, you actually achieve better results - at rocket speed - because you're firing on all cylinders. You'll think of new things, approach old problems from new perspectives, and breathe a breath of fresh air into everything you do. This book shows you how to achieve this state of steady, sustainable fire and how to get further by crawling than you ever did while attempting to fly.

You know you're capable of more, but the stress is eating away at your body, your brain, and your soul. Relax, take a deep breath, and buckle down. Clear your mind, and then put it to work. Master Your Mind shows you how to supercharge your trajectory by taking it S-L-O-W.

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Listening Length	6 hours and 41 minutes
Author	Roger Seip, Robb Zbierski
Narrator	Roger Wayne
Audible.com.au Release Date	27 October 2020
Publisher	Gildan Media
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B08L8G37RR
Best Sellers Rank	132,035 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 355 in Business Development 366 in Business Decision Making & Problem Solving 1,630 in Business Decision-Making & Problem Solving

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Rob Sedgwick

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 March 2019

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This book follows the pattern of so many "inspirational" self-help books. Firstly it drones on for ages about how it is going to change your life, with lots of analogies and little detail. Next is the "science" underpinning the book. Then it finally gets down to the nitty-gritty (which a lot of people will skip straight to). This book is all about slowing down your brain to achieve more (slow down to get faster). A lot of it seems little more than common sense to me, and all about planning and managing time better. Given the guys who wrote this book actually have a product to sell, you eventually come down to the whole purpose of the book, which is to sell their product (or at very least encourage an industry which sells similar products). The authors of course run a personal development and training firm, and the book literally ends with their e-mail so that you can buy their services. Personally, I think I would get a lot more out of a neutral book without a product to sell, that looks at issues like time management and relaxation techniques.

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I Read, Therefore I Blog

A self-help guide that mixes common sense practical tips with cod science

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 September 2019

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Roger Seip is a personal development trainer and Robb Zbierski is a public speaker and personal coach. In this so-so book that aims to help improve productivity by helping the reader learn to slow down and refocus your effort on what actually matters, they combine some woo-woo cod science and psychology with some interesting practical tips but, as ever, there isn’t much new here and you will only take from it what you think is relevant to you.

The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 purports to set down a foundation that’s “both scientific and anecdotal in nature” and draws on the latest research in neuroscience and quantum physics combined with practical experience from Seip and Zbierski’s clients. Part 2 then aims to set out tactics that you can deploy to slow down, e.g. by saying no sometimes, working less, having a less detailed plan etc.

Part 1 basically boils down to setting out how and why you should listen to your subconscious combined with positive thinking and avoiding overthinking issues. I didn’t disagree with any of the fundamental principles here (and, to be honest, I thought it was all a bit obvious and a matter of common sense). However I was really uncomfortable with the way Seip and Zbierski try to dress it up with cod science and psychology. This is most apparent when they discuss vibrational frequencies and how it ties to the law of attraction (if anyone here watches FAMILY GUY then it reminded me of Brian’s book WISH IT, WANT IT, DO IT). Neither of the authors represents themselves as a scientist and that’s a good thing as they offer up zero scientific support of this notion and the only writers referred to within the book are basically other self-help authors (although some of them do appear to have a scientific or psychological background). For me, these sections were an absolute turn off in terms of being both grandiose and baloney and there were moments when I considered not finishing the book.

Part 2 is more useful though in terms of giving you techniques for working out how to slow down and refocus. There is nothing earth-shattering here and a lot of it comes down to common sense but if you’re looking at ways of reviewing how you do things, it forms a good jumping off point and sometimes you do just need to have the obvious pointed out to you.

The authors are American and this is a very US-focused book in terms of case studies and aspirations. There’s nothing wrong with that, but I do wonder how it plays with a British readership. It also has a particular focus on how this can be used to focus on sales and winning business, which won’t necessarily be relevant to all potential readers (e.g. people who manage HR functions or IT support). I also found the authors a bit too star struck with exclusive groups (the Seattle Study Group gets name checked) and given the nature of the authors’ own businesses, it’s not surprising that they use the book to sell their own services or previous books. I know that some readers aren’t struck on that but I think it’s just the nature of the self-help market - every book that comes out is there to hustle the author’s own brand and this is no different.

Ultimately what matters is what you’re looking to take away from the read and notwithstanding my reservations on some of the “science”, I did take away a couple of techniques that I’m applying in my everyday life but I’d question how useful it would be for many readers.

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Sunshine 2020

I really like this book - but almost too much information!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 January 2020

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The authors Robb Zbierski and Roger Siep present a whole slew of innovative, but scientifically valid techniques, to help you master your mind. Because you want your mind on your side, not working against you. It sounds simple, but the truth is for a lot of us our mind is in 'two minds' a lot of the time. Yes but, No but! And in that split frame of mind it's almost impossible to make progress.

With lots of useful exercises this is a book that will work for you but only if you DO stuff and don't just THINK about it.
Reading the book and expecting life changing results without investing energy in practise is a waste of time.. It's an interesting book even if you just read it, but such a shame to waste the resources and not get the benefits.

They suggest that out of the smorgasbord of suggestions they offer, you pick 2 or 3 that you are really attracted to and stick with those for 30-90 days ... as it takes at least 30 days to rewire your brain, and repeating for 90 days is a better way to ensure these changes stick.

I particularly love their analogy of the ant and the elephant to explain how important it is to get your subconscious mind on board. The conscious mind is the busy Ant running backwards and forward with things to do, people to see and places to go. The Ant decides he's going to New York. Unfortunately he doesn't know he's sitting on top of an elephant and the elephant is going to New Zealand. Once you understand this concept you'll know why you aren't getting the results you want, and these guys will tell you how you can.

One negative point is they often refer to their other book Train Your Brain for Success .. which tends to suggest you need to read that book too to get the max benefit and that's a bit annoying.

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Mrs. Hatter

A Fundamental Truth At It's Core, Suffocated by Filler and a Slow Sales Pitch

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 July 2019

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This books has some very fundamental, basic truths that are sometimes easy to forget (or to even have never have considered before until they were pointed out to you, such as here) and to remember such simplistic truths and apply the rationale behind them can indeed be the difference between a successful day and a disastrous one - you can apply this principal to running your business, working in a busy office, managing your home or even managing your social life and the expectations of others - it's the same principal regardless.

A hectic brain that is overwhelmed and poorly organised when attempting any of the above will fail. That is essentially what this book is saying, and I agree.

But it felt like it took a whole lot more than was strictly necessary to deliver such a simple message, which seemed semi-ironic given the book seemed to be largely about de-cluttering and slowing down your mind to take control of better thought processes. But perhaps that's just me...

Personally I believe, in a very similar vein, that in essence, success in any of the above examples is predominantly about effective time management and efficient, logical thinking, both of which come a whole lot easier when you're not stressed. Stressed people make stupid decisions. They lose the advantage of the overview - the bigger picture - and become aimless and lost in brain fog. Calm people who are centered and clear of mind can see things logically and think both effectively and efficiently. Simple. This books goes some way to pointing that out, or similar at least, and also provides some advice on achieving that. On that front, it's great. But I feel a few of the pages could have been put to better use and would also have garnered more credibility without a sales pitch for attending a money-making training/seminar at the end.

Great for a quick little pick me up for a stressed and busy mind, but not for those looking for something more in-depth that doesn't require the attendance of a live event for best results.

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AGW

I am a bit of a sucker for self help books, but this is genuinely helpful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 May 2020

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I like this book a lot, because its basic premise is that slowing down can optimise performance. But by slowing down, the authors really mean a process of focusing on the essentials rather than every thing that comes your way. The reality of like is that discarding stuff is quite difficult to do but various strategies are proposed to do just that. My favourite is the two hour solution seven step process to mastering your week. Its a meeting with yourself and its all about scheduling time to focus on really important things about your week, tasks you need to do, tasks that will make you money, what time do you regard as flexible and what time is not flexible. There are many things that we need to be reminded of both to do and not to do. This book is well worth a read, because you will be reminded of many things that will reduce your stress and manage your life better.

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