Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence
Written by Amy Alkon
Narrated by Carrington MacDuffie
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About this audiobook
Amy Alkon presents Unf*ckology, a “science-help” book that knocks the self-help genre on its unscientific ass. You can finally stop fear from being your boss and put an end to your lifelong social suckage.
Have you spent your life shrinking from opportunities you were dying to seize but feel “that’s just who I am”? Well, screw that! You actually can change, and it doesn’t take exceptional intelligence or a therapist who’s looking forward to finally buying Aruba after decades of listening to you yammer on.
Transforming yourself takes revolutionary science-help from Amy Alkon, who has spent the past 20 years translating cutting-edge behavioral science into highly practical advice in her award-winning syndicated column. In Unf*ckology, Alkon pulls together findings from neuroscience, behavioral science, evolutionary psychology, and clinical psychology. She explains everything in language you won’t need a psych prof on speed-dial to understand—and with the biting dark humor that made Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck such a great read. She debunks widely-accepted but scientifically unsupported notions about self-esteem, shame, willpower, and more and demonstrates that:
- Thinking your way into changing (as so many therapists and self-help books advise) is the most inefficient way to go about it.
- The mind is bigger than the brain, meaning that your body and your behavior are your gym for turning yourself into the new, confident you.
- Fear is not just the problem; it’s also the solution.
- By targeting your fears with behavior, you make changes in your brain that reshape your habitual ways of behaving and the emotions that go with them.
Follow Amy Alkon's groundbreaking advice in Unf*ckology, and eventually, you’ll no longer need to act like the new you; you’ll become the new you. And how totally f*cking cool is that?
Amy Alkon
AMY ALKON works in applied behavioral science, translating scientific research into highly practical advice. Alkon writes The Science Advice Goddess, an award-winning, syndicated column that runs in newspapers across the United States and Canada. She is also the author of Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck and I See Rude People. She has been on Good Morning America, The Today Show, NPR, CNN, and MTV, and does a weekly science podcast. She has written for Psychology Today, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times Magazine, and the New York Daily News, among others, and has given a TED talk. She is the President of the Applied Evolutionary Psychology Society. She lives in Venice, California.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This was a thoughtful book until she gives some seriously horrendous dating advice in the last chapter that keep the woman as an object to be acted upon by a man, simply because we evolved that way. It left a very gross taste in my mouth
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Enjoyed reading this book, if people want to climb out their abyss of misery, this book offers a good start, unlike any other hyperbole of the self-help pseudoscience market of a quick fix. The Journeying through the pages with Amy Akom is itself an educative as well as an entertaining ride. This is because she an author with wit, graceful and concise!
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Just a big NO!! Of course self help books will not work if you don’t understand them and I am not saying here about Secret which is very superficial and I am not sure why it became so popular.
First think I do if someone tells me “my way of thinking is better and don’t listed you all the doctors, psychologists and people that actually achieve something in their life’s.” I run! As quick as possible.
If her book was such a great book you she wouldn’t have to say how bad the self help books are.1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is less of a self-help book than it is an extremely useful list of research and candid breakdowns of every excuse your ego and habits have ever thrown at you.
Perfect for people that are interested in psychology and habit forming, but have an extreme dislike of affirmations and toxic positivity. - Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Sorry, not for me, this was worse than I expected, at least a self-help book would mesmerize me, this is L.