Four Seconds Lib/E: All the Time You Need to Stop Counter-Productive Habits and Get the Results You Want

Peter Bregman, author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller 18 Minutes, offers strategies to replace energy-wasting, counter-productive habits that commonly derail us with truly effective ones. The things we want most--peace of mind, fulfilling relationships, to do well at work--are surprisingly straightforward to realize. But too often our best efforts to attain them are built on destructive habits that sabotage us. In Four Seconds, Peter Bregman shows us how to replace negative patterns with energy boosting and productive behaviors. To thrive in our fast-paced world all it takes is to pause for as few as four seconds--the length of a deep breath--allowing us to make intentional and tactical choices that lead to better outcomes. Four Seconds reveals: Why listening--not arguing--is the best strategy for changing someone's mind Why setting goals can actually harm performance How to use strategic disengagement to recover focus and willpower How taking responsibility for someone else's failure can actually help your teamPractical and insightful, Four Seconds provides simple solutions to create the results you want without the stress.

About the Author :
Peter Bregman is the CEO of Bregman Partners, a firm that advises, coaches, and trains leaders at all levels to take powerful and ambitious actions to achieve the things that are most important to them and their organizations. He is the author of 18 Minutes (a Wall Street Journal bestseller) and Point B: A Short Guide to Leading a Big Change, and the contributor to five other books. He is a regular contributor to HBR.org, NPR, Psychology Today, Forbes, Fast Company, and other media outlets, and he is a weekly commentator on FOX Business News. He lives in New York City. Chris Sorensen is the AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator of Brian Lies' Bats at the Beach, Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin, and Margaret Peterson Haddix's Sent. Other narrations include Patricia Wood's Lottery and Jodi Picoult's Songs of the Humpback Whale, among many others.

Review :
Bregman's insights are life changing, often surprising, and-most importantly-entirely practical. His strategies can be used every day, take very little of your time, and yet yield extraordinary results. -- "Heidi Grant Halvorson, associate director, Motivation Science Center, Columbia Business School," Peter Bregman is back, this time with an even faster way to find your focus and get back on track when life throws you off. You'll learn how four seconds can be just enough time to activate better decision-making and short-circuit our habitual, counterproductive responses to seemingly intractable problems. I especially appreciate that Bregman doesn't offer himself up as a guru with superhuman self-control: his honesty and empathy for his own failings make Four Seconds a refreshing read. -- "Daniel H. Pink, New York Times bestselling author of Drive" This book is priceless, a book that could change your career, your marriage, your life. -- "Seth Godin, New York Times bestselling author of Tribes"