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Until we improve our mental health most of us struggle to summon sufficient positivity and energy to successfully pursue traditional mental health remedies: a Catch-22. If we’re going to make a start and maximise our chances of making progress it’s essential that our therapy is as straightforward, quick and effective as possible. Full of powerful, constructive messages this short book is designed to provide just such a method. By remembering a handful of key words and putting the messages associated with them into practice, we can prevent destructive thoughts and feelings from ...

* Why our thoughts become destructive * What we do to put them right * How we ensure they then remain constructive The comparisons we make, the expectations we form and our search for purpose in life are all vital, everyday psychological processes. But they also lie behind many of the mental health struggles we experience. Hidden in plain sight, they explain why we feel inferior, perpetually disappointed, intensely jealous, deeply fearful of failure, seriously lacking in motivation and so on. The answer is not to deny these three processes, but to understand their rightful purposes and ...

There’s no getting away from the fact that we, as human beings, can be pretty strange! We frequently think, do and say things that, if we thought about them, we would quickly conclude are far from sensible. And then, even more remarkably, we do them again. We’re highly agitated by harmless situations, hate looking at social media but can’t stop ourselves from peeking, believe in utterly bizarre conspiracy theories, always underestimate the time and cost of doing things, can’t resist a ‘bargain’, attribute our successes to skill and our failures to bad luck, give up on diets that...

The comparisons we make are crucial to the decisions we take as well as the judgements we reach in everyday life. For the sake of our well-being and wallets, they deserve far more attention than we give them. Lacking the time, inclination and insight to make the best possible comparisons, we are inclined to take shortcuts, ensuring that our 'comparison set' is often determined more by convenience than relevance. Then, when choosing between these options, a number of psychological biases come into play: it's no wonder that costly errors and regret occur all too frequently. It needn't be this...

Sport — jam-packed as it is with decisions, judgements and predictions, usually made under significant pressure — is the perfect environment for cognitive biases to flourish. If we are to better understand sport, we must better understand why, how and in what circumstances these biases and other thinking oddities operate. In so doing, we will learn why… the decisions of match officials ARE inherently biased pundits are so bad at making predictions sporting form can appear and disappear in an instant people behave differently in crowds managers are sacked at the drop of a hat we bet ...