"The Switch Principle" by Elaine Fox - more mental flexibility

How to gain mental strength in a volatile world?

"The Switch Principle" by Elaine Fox provides assistance.

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Maintaining mental strength in everyday life, at work and in the constantly changing world is a noble goal.

It is often lost in everyday life.

But with the right key skills, we can maintain and possibly even expand our emotional and cognitive agility.

Elaine Fox provides the reader with "The Switch Principle" a book with studies, case histories and anecdotes.

Elaine Fox "The Switch Principle": About the Book

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Elaine Fox "The Switch Principle"

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Our modern world is constantly changing at breakneck speed.

In decades of research, the psychologist and neuroscientist Elaine Fox has found what people who are successful and happy despite constant change share: their common secret is emotional and cognitive agility. Fox shows how to acquire this ability using her groundbreaking findings and numerous others case histories.

She explains how we develop new patterns of thought and action and how we learn to recognize when we should fall back on old habits and when it would be better to switch to what we have learned - in order to deal confidently with challenges, solve problems creatively and make good decisions.

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In "The Switch Principle" we get to know our way of thinking and our brain better.

We learn that the human brain has around 86 billion neurons and hundreds of billions of synapses.

The anecdotes interspersed in the book are worth reading, the questionnaires can be used to educate yourself in certain areas and the division into the four pillars of the switch principle makes it easy to look up.

Personally, I found the third pillar, “emotions”, exciting.

I find out where these come from, that negative emotions are also useful and how I can steer them.

I described how negative thoughts influence our behavior in the article on Diane Hielscher's “Rethinking Love”.

Elaine Fox "The Switch Principle": My conclusion

Elaine Fox offers a simple and understandable introduction to the topic of mental health with "The Switch Principle".

The chapters are easy to work through.

Summaries at the end of the chapters and questionnaires for self-monitoring complete it.

Elaine Fox "The Switch Principle"

Translated from the English by Johanna Wais

2022, dtv ISBN-13 978-3-423-26328-3

Price: Paperback €19, e-book €14.99, 384 pages (different format) – Order now (promotional link)

Elaine Fox

Elaine Fox is Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Adelaide.

Before that, she was a professor of psychology and neurology at the University of Oxford for almost ten years, where she headed OCEAN, one of the world's leading institutes in the field of mental health.

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