You're Addicted to You: Why It's So Hard to Change -- and What You Can Do About It

by Noah Blumenthal

All of us have things about ourselves we’d like to change. Maybe you want to be more organized, healthier, thinner, or more outspoken. Or perhaps you want to procrastinate less, quit smoking, listen better, or be a better leader. Whatever you want to change, you probably believe that your success depends on your conviction. The fact of the matter is, willpower alone won’t get you to change.

Noah Blumenthal illustrates how each of us becomes so thoroughly conditioned to act in old, counterproductive ways that negative behaviors become part of our very being. In a very real sense we become addicted to ourselves. The problem, he explains, isn’t that you aren’t trying hard enough, but that you’ve never learned the right way to make difficult changes. Here, he details a proven three-stage strategy—illuminated with practical tools, techniques, and exercises—for breaking self-addictions and conquering damaging behaviors like anger, workaholism, risk aversion, procrastination, overeating, under-exercising—just about anything. We all want to change our counterproductive behaviors. Here, Blumenthal offers a step-by-step guide for how to do it successfully.

Genres: Self Help

184 pages, Paperback

First published April 16, 2007

Reviews

[Ralph · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a nice little book. I like the author's easygoing and straightforward style and the premise of the book. It seems odd to me that it is so obscure. Maybe it just got lost in a sea of similar books.

It reminds me a lot of Marshall Goldsmith's book Triggers, because both advice asking yourself questions on a regular basis, and both also point out that you need to watch for certain triggers and THINK before you respond to them!

I am glad I read the book!