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    The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World
    The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World
    The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World
    Audiobook8 hours

    The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World

    Written by David Robson

    Narrated by John Sackville

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    “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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateFeb 15, 2022
    ISBN9781250840691
    Author

    David Robson

    David Robson is an award-winning science writer based in the United Kingdom. A graduate of Cambridge University, he previously worked as an editor at New Scientist and a senior journalist at the BBC. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, the Atlantic, Men's Health, the Psychologist, the Washington Post, and many other publications. His first book, The Intelligence Trap, was published in 2019 and has been translated into fifteen languages.

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    Readers find this title to be an eminently readable book that lays out the science of how our expectations affect our outcomes. The research presented is both familiar and new, and it provides startling insights into the brain's regulation of the body. The book emphasizes the importance of mindset in health and longevity, offering surprising perspectives. Readers appreciate the knowledge gained from this amazing book and highly recommend it to all age groups. The packaging of research in this book is well-done and comprehensive.

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    • 5/5
      This was one of the best books I've listened to
    • 5/5
      Simple, informative, and direct. Great at breaking down how your thoughts shape your beliefs and impact your life.
    • 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.
    • 5/5
      What an amazing book! I have learnt so much!! I will read it again and again and recommend it to every age group! Thank you for writing this book David Robson and thank you to the narrator! Wow!! It opens the mind!!
    • 5/5
      I've heard a lot of the research mentioned in this book, but it's all nice packaged together.
    • 3/5
      It seems the narrator inhales are at first of each paragraph.