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If you’re one of the ever increasing hordes of people who run their life on the go — exclusively...

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In this long-awaited bioraphy, Wilde the legendary Victorian - brilliant writer and...

David McK (3692 KP) rated The Chimp Paradox: The Acclaimed Mind Management Programme to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence and Happiness in Books

Jun 30, 2019

I'm calling my chimp Clarence.

Not that long ago, I picked up the sequel (for want of a better word) of this on Audible, as part of their 30 day trial. That was The Silent Guides, and largely wasn't really all the relevant to me. However, it did have a short section in which the author summarised his previous work (this), enough to arouse my curiosity.

After finishing it, I still had some credit left, so thought I would pick that earlier work.

So, what is the Chimp Paradox? Basically, it's a metaphor: Dr Steve Peters has us imagining our minds as (largely) split into 3: The 'Computer' where we store experiences and information, the Chimp (who always acts first and is the emotional part of our mind) and the Human (or us, the more logical part).

This work then provides more details on each of these, and on how they affect our day-to-day life along with theories and suggestions on how to improve said day-to-day life through (and I quote) 'managing our chimp'.

This, I felt, was more relevant to me and my circumstances than the later work (which I picked up first): there were elements in this where I could find myself going "oh, that's an idea … maybe I'll do that …" or "oh, right, I see what he's getting at here …".

Maybe not life changing or the be-all-to-end-all, but it does have some useful suggestions, yes (it's just a pity that Steve Peter's voice is a bit monotone!)