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Has anybody here read Watson and Tharp's Self-Directed Behavior: Self-Modification for Personal Adjustment ? Any review/insight/recommendation would be much app

• bordercases 5y ago
  The full book is worth reading if and only if you want to have an entire theory of reinforcement psychology in your head. Else, the first four chapters and the last few are good enough. What it teaches you is that, behavior is situational, not innate. As it is situational you ought to enumerate and decompose your current behavior into its antecedents, its content, and its consequences; describing your behavior's whole context. From there, you ought to apply tactics onto these ABCs to increase or decrease your target behavior accordingly. You should track your progress for relapse, and then have plans to adjust your behavior if and when relapse occurs. The book describes these tactics and gives hints on how to achieve all of the above. It is an excellent book. If BJ Fogg's "Tiny Habits" felt like they lacked substance, then pick up "Self-Directed Behavior".