Psychological Triggers: The Hidden Influences Behind Our Actions, Thoughts and Behaviors

by Peter Hollins

Human Nature, Irrationality and Why We Do What We Do

UNDERSTAND, AVOID AND DEFEAT THE SUBCONSCIOUS CAUSES OF YOUR IRRATIONAL AND SELF-DEFEATING BEHAVIORS.

Seize control of your impulses and make better decisions. Psychological Triggers is an introduction to yourself —your impulses, your desires and everything in your subconscious that drives you to action.

This book answers the “Why did I just make a terrible choice when I know I shouldn't have?" We are all slaves to our triggers, and this book seeks to identify them to better battle them.

MASTER YOUR PSYCHOLOGY, MASTER YOUR LIFE.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Self Help, Brain

137 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 1, 2018

About the author

Peter Hollins is a bestselling author, human psychology researcher, and a student of the human condition. He possesses a BS in psychology and a graduate degree.

Reviews

[kendra eliza · Rating 3 out of 5]

it’s giving this could have been an email energy

[Vanessa]

Finally finished this book. I never thought I'd finish.

[Erica · Rating 2 out of 5]

The title made bold promises concerning the topic at hand, and upon which, regrettably, it did not deliver. This is undoubtedly a fascinating umbrella of human behavioral mechanisms fit for a robust and original exploration; this text, however, supplied neither. If you have even basic self-awareness, an understanding of cognitive bias, a 101 command of psychology, and an understanding of evolutionarily derived neurological responses, this isn’t the book for you. If you’re new to the subject and would like a very broad and extremely succinct overview, it is perhaps worth a look.

[Samuel Ozouf · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good read, It's actually really interesting seeing how many triggers we have in daily life. I've taken away a lot of things from this book, from box breathing to recognising and correcting my own behaviours.

[Radek Vacha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book if you want to understand yourself more

I’ve started to study psychology at the time I happened to start managing people. I want to understand why and what.
I red number of books starting with typical managerial and business books like Drucker, Carnegie.

But I craved for better and deep understanding. I red books of Daniel Goleman about Emotional intelligence. There’s a lot of good books however I feel this one is somehow special.
The book is well organized with examples and explanations.
What is very good is the summary of each chapter - outcomes.

It can serves as a good guide for understanding, get deeper insights into what is happening around. In addition to that it can help to create sort of personal training plan how to tackle with daily live issues, avoid traps and caveats.

Congratulations to the author for such a good job.

[Iuliana Maxim · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book provides a good high-level summary of psychological mechanisms triggering human reactions. Not only that it tries to explain reasons for which we humans react unconsciously sometimes to certain internal and external triggers, but it also offers couple of very good tactics on how to react rationally rather than emotionally. Now, if you expect from the book to be a peer-reviewed kind of article published in psychology journals, you may be disappointed. And I believe this was not the intent of the author in the first place, as he is targeting the large audience, whether or not they are familiar with basic psychology concepts. All in all, I find the book a very well-written self-help material that provides a logical, comprehensive, but as well concise and easy-to-follow narration on why we react irrationally and how we can train ourselves to act rationally.

[reader10101 · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book encompasses a general view of human nature with some great examples, it’s a light read and an introduction for understanding one’s self and his actions. This doesn’t book give conclusive answers to what drives every action you take but multiple possibilities which may be the reason. After you finish the book you have a summary of each chapter and ra takeaways, which usually in books like this I recommend reading the summary then diving deep into the chapter to kind of get a feeling of what this might be about and in the end it compels all of these summaries together in case you want to have a quick overview instead of reading it all over again. Great light reading.

[Henry · Rating 4 out of 5]

This work is a very high-level view of psychology and the triggers that affect us. It provides both facts and examples. Some of the material may seem common sense, but I don't know if many of us stop to put all of these points together as the author does. I think the material is presented in a way that combines what we know and fills in many of the blanks between. This is certainly not a deep dive into psychology but gives the reader the broad strokes.

The narration was great. The reader's voice is well suited for this material.

[Gus · Rating 3 out of 5]

Enjoyable read, but too broad of a subject for me

I liked some of the passages, but the contents seemed too broad and somewhat disconnected from each other. It’s a fine recollection of different topics that are somewhat related to how we make decisions.
I would so much rather recommend reading other more focused books like “Drive” or “Influence” than this one, but I guess it’s a matter of taste.

[Jennifer · Rating 2 out of 5]

The majority of information shared in this book is rather basic. If you have already read up on the topic and have some fundamental understanding of certain psychological concepts, you might not learn much new from this book. Some statements or rather attempted jokes are quite cringeworthy as well. However, it is written in a very approachable way and easy to read. It just seems to have promised to teach more than it actually delivered in the end.

[Theresa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Psychology - A glimpse at human behavior

This book attempt to explain why we do the things we do. What I like most about it is how clearly it's. The author explains theories and how they can predict behavior. For example, if you tell someone they can't do something, how likely are they to do it, just to prove you wrong?

[Spine Dining · Rating 3 out of 5]

nothing new here. written to a formula and mooches off of classic psychology and the likes of kahneman thinking fast and slow and de bono six thinking hats. serves as a good summary of a few psychological terms & jargon, so if you are in need of a revision - this doesn't last too long and just what the doctor ordered for you to do on audio, on that walk every day.

[Chris M. · Rating 2 out of 5]

This isn't a bad read per se, but it doesn't offer anything new that hasn't been discussed before. It felt like a rehash of psychological studies that have already been discussed in other books about psychological triggers. I would rate it about 2.5/5 overall.

[Walter T. Mara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting!

Even though at times this book felt just a little too abstract to me, I did learn a great deal.

[Victor C Cardoz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book

Very well illustrated
Nice to have it in your collection
Great concepts.
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[Gregory Offner · Rating 3 out of 5]

skip to the chapter summaries

The book took a long time to get to the point; and read more like a beginners manual to basic operational / behavioral psychology

[sama tolbert · Rating 5 out of 5]

EXPERIENCE!

This is a very good book 💯%. I encourage anyone who's interested in Psychology to read it. It's one of the best on the market.

Sincerely,

Sama Tolbert

[Vishal Sharma · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book to understand the psychological and thinking at high level.

[Robert Hudder · Rating 1 out of 5]

I guess I'll start with things that made me doubt the rest of the book:
- the use of the Stanford Prison experiment without talking about the issues in terms of methodology rather than ethics
- the use of the contagion theory to build an argument for triggers without mentioning emergent theory which would also fit and in my opinion fit better with the theses of the author
- the casual use of poverty as a pain and something that people work to avoid. Seems dismissive of folks who are poor and maybe they don't work to avoid it?
- the total dismissal of heuristics and intuition. Sure the 10,000 hours thing is suspect but there does seem to be a possibility there.

My takeaways were facile:
- Read de Bono
- breath/meditate until the urge to react quickly passes
- follow some standard checks to prevent biases from clouding.

Unfortunately, there wasn't a lot new here. Most of what was here is Psych 101 with huge glosses and not much critical thinking. With the lack of references and further resources, there isn't much to recommend.

[Sergio Díaz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Psychological triggers is a book to be read focusing on understanding the message the author is trying to put across( and, from my point of view, perfectly puts across): everyone acts depend on the influence of elements we cannot control.
Apart from explaining how and why we are dominated by these pychological triggers, the author provides the reader with information and techniques to cope with them and resist their influence as much as possible.
Written in a very clear and simple way without missing accuracy, it is highly recommendable to, at the very least, be able to acknowledge what drives our lives as a general rule.

[Liew · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite a decent book that talks across many triggers and the work around some of them. Especially worth reading if it is your first few psychology books. Especially like the applicability / actionable ideas.

breadth ~4/5
depth ~2/5
applicability ~4/5

[Suno · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good introductory book - more in academic bent than in applied style. It teaches you the truth from the podium. Good narration. Covers quite some ground but with very little applicability.

[Todd Cheng · Rating 1 out of 5]

Okay, but not many new materials provided or it was not provided in a new interesting way.

[Peter Goring · Rating 5 out of 5]

A super insightful read

This book is a must read , easy to digest and packed with a great deal of truths, facts and examples

[wanda shoemaker · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Paul Stewart · Rating 2 out of 5]

Reasonable book, nothing new