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The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World

The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World

Written by David Robson

Narrated by John Sackville


The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World

Written by David Robson

Narrated by John Sackville

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5/5 (1 rating)
Length:
8 hours
Publisher:
Released:
Feb 15, 2022
ISBN:
9781250840691
Format:
Audiobook

Description

“As David Robson makes plain in this compelling book, the way we think about the world can profoundly shape how we navigate it. Based in science and packed with smart advice, The Expectation Effect will expand your mind—and maybe even extend your life.”
—Daniel Pink, New York Times bestselling author of When, Drive, and To Sell Is Human


A journey through the cutting-edge science of how our mindset shapes every facet of our lives, revealing how your brain holds the keys to unlocking a better you

What you believe can make it so.

You’ve heard of the placebo effect and how sugar pills can accelerate healing. But did you know that sham heart surgeries often work just as well as placing real stents? Or that people who think they’re particularly prone to cardiovascular disease are four times as likely to die from cardiac arrest? Such is the power and deadly importance of the expectation effect—how what we think will happen changes what does happen.

Melding neuroscience with narrative, science journalist David Robson takes readers on a deep dive into the many life zones the expectation effect permeates. We see how people who believe stress is beneficial become more creative when placed under strain. We see how associating aging with wisdom can add seven plus years to your life. People say seeing is believing but, over and over, Robson proves that the converse is truer: believing is seeing.

The Expectation Effect is not woo-woo. You cannot think your way into a pile of money or out of a cancer diagnosis. But just because magical thinking is nonsense doesn’t mean rational magic doesn’t exist. Pointing to accepted psychology and objective physiology, Robson gives us the practical takeaways we need to improve our fitness, productivity, intelligence, and happiness. Any reader who wants to take their fate into their own hands need only pick up this book.

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company.

Publisher:
Released:
Feb 15, 2022
ISBN:
9781250840691
Format:
Audiobook

About the author

David Robson commenced his investigation career in 1996 when he joined the New South Wales, State Police Department based in Sydney, Australia. During his time as a police officer David worked in general duties and also in specialist plain clothes units which were set up to target recidivist offenders in a proactive manner. In 2000 he pursued an opportunity in the private sector and quickly established himself as one of Sydney’s leading surveillance operatives. In 2002 he accepted a management position with one of Australia’s leading investigation firms and ran the surveillance operations on a national level. In 2004 he struck out on his own, establishing an investigation company on Australia’s Gold Coast where he conducted surveillance investigations for major insurers and private (domestic) clients . In 2010 he returned to Sydney and established Robson Brothers Pty Ltd which is a full service investigation firm offering services to insurers, law firms and other corporations throughout Australia and domestic investigations globally.



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  • (5/5)
    Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2022
    This eminently readable book lays out the science showing how our expectations affect our outcomes. Some of the research was familiar, some new to me. I found a lot of it startling. My takeaway is that the brain regulates the body in ways we don't understand. If we expect scarcity, the brain prepares the body for scarcity. If we expect abundance, the brain prepares the body for abundance. Mindset therefore becomes an important factor in health and longevity, often in surprising ways.

    Thanks, NetGalley, for the ARC I received. This is my honest and voluntary review.