Redirect: Changing the Stories We Live By

Redirect: Changing the Stories We Live By

Timothy D. Wilson

Language: English

Pages: 304

ISBN: 031605190X

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


"There are few academics who write with as much grace and wisdom as Timothy Wilson. REDIRECT is a masterpiece." -Malcolm Gladwell

What if there were a magic pill that could make you happier, turn you into a better parent, solve a number of your teenager's behavior problems, reduce racial prejudice, and close the achievement gap in education? There is no such pill, but story editing - the scientifically based approach described in REDIRECT - can accomplish all of this.

The world-renowned psychologist Timothy Wilson shows us how to redirect the stories we tell about ourselves and the world around us, with subtle prompts, in ways that lead to lasting change. Fascinating, groundbreaking, and practical, REDIRECT demonstrates the remarkable power small changes can have on the ways we see ourselves and our environment, and how we can use this in our everyday lives.

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Better as time goes by improved their grades and were less likely to drop out of college, relative to the participants randomly assigned to a control group. But exactly how did this happen? We hypothesized that our message interrupted a self-defeating cycle of thinking in which the students blamed themselves for their academic problems, and prompted them to switch to a self-enhancing cycle of thinking in which they decided they could do better if they tried. But the astute reader will have.

By, this group did the worst: at the one-year mark, they exhibited significantly more depression, and lower well-being, than those in the other two groups—including the ones who had found out that they had inherited the Huntington gene. In other words, people who were 100 percent sure that they would get the disease and die prematurely were happier and less depressed than people who were 50 percent sure that they were healthy and disease-free. This study illustrates, I think, how adept people.

Introducing them to new words. The parents were in the room with the infants but did not watch the video with them. In a second condition, the infants watched the video for the same amount of time, but a parent watched with them. In a third condition, the infants never saw the video. Instead, the parents were given a list of the vocabulary words featured in the video and were instructed to teach their kids the words in whatever way seemed natural to them. The fourth condition was a control group.

Countries, and that because this parenting style is expected and accepted there it is less harmful. In the study just mentioned, however, no such difference emerged: both the Chinese and American kids who had controlling parents were likely to suffer emotionally in subsequent years. I wouldn’t say that this issue is fully settled; researchers continue to look at the role of parenting styles in different cultures. Further, we need to be careful in interpreting correlational studies such as this.

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