Four Seconds

All the Time You Need to Stop Counter-Productive Habits and Get the Results You Want

By: Peter Bregman

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Peter Bregman, author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller 18 Minutes, offers strategies to replace energy-wasting, counter-productive habits that commonly derail us with truly effective ones.

The things we want most—peace of mind, fulfilling relationships, to do well at work—are surprisingly straightforward to realize. But too often our best efforts to attain them are built on destructive habits that sabotage us. In Four Seconds, Peter Bregman shows us how to replace negative patterns with energy boosting and productive behaviors. To thrive in our fast-paced world all it takes is to pause for as few as four seconds—the length of a deep breath—allowing us to make intentional and tactical choices that lead to better outcomes. Four Seconds reveals:

• Why listening—not arguing—is the best strategy for changing someone’s mind
• Why setting goals can actually harm performance
• How to use strategic disengagement to recover focus and willpower
• How taking responsibility for someone else’s failure can actually help your team

Practical and insightful, Four Seconds provides simple solutions to create the results you want without the stress.

brilliant text, painful reading

a goldmine of useful insights, strategies and tactics, which apply to all aspects of life. a real shame that Peter did not read himself, as material was not helpfully rendered in this reading.

Many thanks for daily changes to be better.

Many thanks for daily changes to be better. I have already implemented separate. thank you

This Book is Packed with Great Content!

Great book that’s full of valuable insights and practical strategies. Love the short chapters and stories.

Not what I expected :)

What I expected was a time management help book, because I desperately need that :) (I think the subtitle was a bit misleading into that assumption). Instead I have listened to so many stories that totally related to my life and have provided me the opportunity to step back, see myself in them and nod in recognition. I have just finished the audio version of the book and, if I have to find one thing, I would say the too mellow voice of the narrator and the pace he was keeping in his talk. I had to put the speed to x1.25 in order to go faster ! Other than that, I highly recommend this book: it doesn't reinvent the wheel; but provides so many useful everyday "a-ha !" moments for both the workplace and personal life.

Practical, entertaining and easy to access...

I grabbed this book in response to the "Four Seconds" portion of the title. something it that title made me think it was super short. Instead it was engaging which gave it a sense of brevity. The book itself is full of interesting perspective on taking conscious and deliberate action in order to direct better outcomes. I'm sure I'll listen again soon.