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13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, And Train Your Brain For Happiness And Success
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Kick bad mental habits and toughen yourself up.--Inc.
Master your mental strength--revolutionary new strategies that work for everyone from homemakers to soldiers and teachers to CEOs.
Everyone knows that regular exercise and weight training lead to physical strength. But how do we strengthen ourselves mentally for the truly tough times? And what should we do when we face these challenges? Or as psychotherapist Amy Morin asks, what should we avoid when we encounter adversity? Through her years counseling others and her own experiences navigating personal loss, Morin realized it is often the habits we cannot break that are holding us back from true success and happiness. Indulging in self-pity, agonizing over things beyond our control, obsessing over past events, resenting the achievements of others, or expecting immediate positive results holds us back. This list of things mentally strong people don't do resonated so much with readers that when it was picked up by Forbes.com it received ten million views.
Now, for the first time, Morin expands upon the thirteen things from her viral post and shares her tried-and-true practices for increasing mental strength. Morin writes with searing honesty, incorporating anecdotes from her Read More chevron_right
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A great book to read for personal growth
Derived From Web , Apr 20, 2022
A personal book to read for great growth. Do not expect a good replacement for a good psychologist, but read it anyway and take it as you can.
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I couldve googled the "advice"
Derived From Web , Jan 7, 2022
This book had very obvious and unremarkable tips and tricks to help you improve yourself. I wanted to read a self-help and motivating book to help me think in a new way, but this did not do that at all. It is way too simple and I honestly didn 't take away anything from the book that is truly meaningful.
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Good book for habit building
Derived From Web , Jan 2, 2022
Good book for developing strong habits to be successful. Uses examples to demonstrate points throughout the book to reinforce points, which reinforces themes in the book.
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Very inspiring
Derived From Web , Jul 11, 2021
I enjoyed this book thoroughly ''. I did it as part of my 75 - hard challenge and am very glad that I chose it. It has woken me to some of my habits and why I am not as far in life as I thought I should be. It gave me a clear insight into how I should think to improve my life and self discipline.
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Concept Better Than Book
Derived From Web , May 15, 2020
I love the idea of mental strength and all 13 topics of this book are important. The book, however, did not add much depth or insight into each of the themes. Each chapter has an example person who has dealt with challenges in the area. Most of the examples were shallow and often centered around someone who dealt with a disease and then spent the rest of their life raising money for said disease. The examples also seemed forced into each topic and did not always relate directly to it. This book is fine for someone who is entirely new to the concept of mental strength and needs a nudge to improve their attitude. I 'd like the level of depth to an eating healthy 101 guidebook. Even if the material is obvious. Reading a book again is never a bad reminder. But there are more thought-provoking or inspirational books on the themes.
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Didn't resonate with me.
Derived From Web , Jun 16, 2019
This book has some good information in it, but the way it is written is not inspiring. In fact, I can 't understand a therapist writing it, as the author does not seem to believe the reader at all. There is a lot of victim blaming and talking down to people who aren 't mentally strong. It seemed like this book was written for physically strong people without conceiving the true audience. While each point is correct, I felt like I could have gained just as much value from the book by reading the list of 13 things from the table of contents.
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Can’t recommend
Derived From Web , Dec 16, 2018
This book did not teach me anything new or exciting. A few pointers but definitely not worth buying. Save your money and save it.
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I was worried I had left this book at a restaurant and then wondered why I was worried
Derived From Web , Sep 22, 2018
The book is a bit philosophical to a degree. It tries to bridge the gap between being a popular citation book and being written as a well-known reading book, and for me it fails at both. There is not enough technical information to be really useful and I personally don 't find the anecdotes shared to be amusing or illustrative enough. Normally, I bring my kids to play in a popular fast food restaurant with a play area on a weekend morning and read while they play. When I figured I lost it, I was rather ok with it.
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Ableist; better resources exist
Derived From Web , Jan 10, 2018
I managed to get to #8 before the chapter title Mentally Strong People '' Don 't Make the Same Mistakes Over and Over '' finally brought me to a stop. If you suffer from mental illness, PTSD from childhood abuse and or systemic oppression, this book will trigger you. The author makes vague statements about getting treatment and cutting contact with abusers, but spends the rest of the time spent victim-blaming and telling questionable anecdotes about parents and children. There are valuable tidbits, but are not worth the excavation from a book that makes mental mistakes feel like capitulation to everyday human weakness. As others have said, the ideas are very basic, but especially a depressed one. For a better start check out the sites Out of the FOG '' and The Body is not an Apology ''.
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Nothing new here--lots of observations, anecdotes, and reflections
Derived From Web , Dec 30, 2017
This book could also be titled. Personal Reflections, Common Sense Anecdotes, and Inspiring Observations are included. I don 't think there is anything in this book that is particularly wrong, it is just incredibly basic, nothing new. Honestly, as soon as I read this book and cracked open the book jacket and read her bio, she is the only person in the psychology industry that talks about mental strength on a global level, but not backed up with facts and evidence. And that's fine : you can write a whole bunch of opinions and common sense information, but I don 't have the time for it.
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