Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The Advice Goddess presents a pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps, science-based guide to living a happier life by learning how to grow a pair.
Amy Alkon, The Advice Goddess, isn't exactly the warm-and-fuzzy type. She's the pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps type. Her Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck was a big hit, and she's following that no-nonsense guide to good behavior with her very own prescription for living better: Unf*ckology
In her latest book, Amy is out to prove that loserhood, isn't destiny. As she puts it "You can't order a slightly used spine off eBay." There's no "find my balls" like "find my iPhone," but there is actually a way out of loserhood and it doesn't require a therapist who's looking forward to finally buying that island after decades of listening to you jaw on. All you have to do is behave as the confident person you want to be.
In Amy's words, this is not a self-help book, but a "science-help" book. Based on research in neuroscience and behavior she shows readers how to get up off their couches and actually do something about their life. In chapters like "Eat Shit and Die," "Jeer Pressure," and "You Suck, or...Do You?" she takes a science-based approach to why ritual is important, what shame actually is and how to beat it, and how confidence can lead to self-respect. With the same hilarious approach she took to etiquette, Amy Alkon now turns her gimlet eye on the self-help book and uses science to turn losers into winners.
Synopsis
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?