The 12 Levers

The last self-help book you'll ever need-learn how to accelerate personal growth and mental well-being with the collective wisdom of self-help: the 12 Levers. "A powerful toolkit that you can use for whatever challenges life has thrown at you." -Annie Duke, bestselling author of Thinking in Bets and Quit   After years of research-analyzing 106 self-help books and 23 therapies-psychology experts Spencer Greenberg and Jeremy Stevenson discovered that, from a bird's-eye view, all self-help techniques collapse into just 12 broad strategies. Knowing these 12 Levers can prepare you for so many of the challenges that life will throw at you. You'll learn how to...- Clarify your intrinsic values to give your life direction- Overcome fear by using the most scientifically validated anxiety approach in the world- Alleviate insomnia and out-of-sync sleep routines with techniques largely known only to sleep therapists - Enrich your downtime by doing more glad-you-did-it activities- Get more done by understanding the three factors of The Productivity Equation- Interrupt spirals of self-consciousness using the Attention Training Technique   ...and much more. Together, the 12 Levers form the complete psychological toolkit for improving your life.

Spencer Greenberg is an entrepreneur and mathematician with a PhD in applied math from NYU. He’s the founder and CEO of ClearerThinking.org, a psychology education and research organization that designs and conducts novel studies in psychology and offers more than 80 interactive educational tools to the general public, used by hundreds of thousands of people. His work has been featured by numerous major media outlets, such as Forbes, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Independent, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Fast Company, and Financial Times. Jeremy Stevenson is a clinical psychologist with a PhD from Flinders University, where his dissertation explored the effects of self-compassion on social anxiety. He has treated hundreds of clients across thousands of clinical hours and has published research in various academic journals. He has also experimented with many self-help techniques himself, and some of them have changed his life.