Self-Help is Overwhelming.
The 12 Levers Simplifies It.
After extracting nearly 500 techniques from 106 self-help books and 23 therapies, we found something surprising: they all collapse into just 12 strategies.
We call these the "12 Levers", and they provide a complete psychological toolkit for improving your life.
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Self-Help is Overwhelming.
This Book Simplifies It.
The most important ingredient in any self-help resource isn't the stories or the theory - it's the techniques. But despite the abundance of resources out there, almost nobody knows the full range of effective techniques and how to apply them. That's the problem we're aiming to solve.
Knowing The 12 Levers
Prepares You For The Problems
That Life Will Throw at You.
You'll learn how to…
1
Use the ABC Analysis to identify the controllable causes of the problems in your life
3
Clarify your intrinsic values to give your life direction
5
Overcome fear by using the most scientifically validated anxiety approach in the world
7
Alleviate insomnia and broken sleep routines with expert therapist techniques.
9
Enrich your downtime by doing more glad-you-did-it activities
2
Reduce self-criticism by activating your Compassionate Self
4
Get more done by understanding the three factors of The Productivity Equation
6
Reframe negative beliefs using Cognitive Restructuring
8
Interrupt unhelpful loops of self-consciousness using the Attention Training Technique
10
Steer your conversations into deeper, more vulnerable, and more fulfilling topics
…and much more.
The Complete Psychological Toolkit -
Not Vague Inspiration or a Motivational Pep Talk.
The big picture
The full landscape of self-help strategies
Curation
For each Lever, we selected the best techniques based on scientific evidence, clinical experience, and real-world testing
The highlights
Each chapter distils the key principles, takeaways, and action steps so you know exactly what to remember and what to do
The specifics
Step-by-step instructions for how to do each technique.
No special equipment needed.
Clear writing
Core ideas and methods from CBT, ACT, DBT, Schema Therapy, and more — without the jargon
A universal translator
Once you know the 12 Levers, all other therapies and self-improvement books start to make sense
About the Authors
Spencer Greenberg
MATHEMATICIAN & ENTREPRENEUR
Spencer 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. He's also the founder of Spark Wave. His work has been featured by Forbes, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Independent, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Fast Company, and Financial Times.
Jeremy Stevenson
CLINICAL
PSYCHOLOGIST
Jeremy 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.
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