0:00 A quick note, lots of people tell us that YouTube unsubscribes them from the channel even though they already pressed it. So just check down there and see if the subscribe button is pressed. You get access to episodes before anybody else. If you do, supports me and the show helps me to bring you bigger and better guests and it makes me very happy. So just go and give it a tap for me. I thank you. You researched nearly 500 self-improvement strategies. What'd you learn? >> Yeah. So my co-author Jeremy and Stevenson and I, we had this crazy project where we're like, what if we could gather all the good stuff in
0:31 self-improvement and try to cram it down into one book. But there's a big problem with that, which is there's so much stuff, how could you possibly make sense of it all? So our idea was, can we find the underlying psychological drivers behind each of the self-improvement techniques? So once we gone through over 100 self-improvement books and over 20 types of therapy and taken out every method that they had, we asked ourselves for each one, what is the psychological method behind it? And much to our surprise, we were able to boil it down to just 12 levers, which is these 12 underlying psychological strategies. And
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