Mind Gym: Achieve More by Thinking Differently by Sebastian Bailey, Ph.D and Octavious Black

 

Mind Gym: Achieve More by Thinking Differently by Sebastian Bailey, Ph.D and Octavius Black

I rated this book 3 out of 5 pages.

I am not big on self-help books, however, this book put into perspective a lot of things I found myself dealing with daily. This book claims it will help you transform your personal and professional life all by changing the way you think. Mind Gym takes the approach that just as we exercise our bodies to build strength, we also need to exercise our minds to reverse the unhealthy patterns that lead us to self-sabotage.

As someone who is riddled with self-sabotage, I gave the book a chance. Mind Gym presents the reader with a fitness program for the mind and ways to tackle common, yet destructive challenges. The book is broken up into main parts and within those parts are chapters focusing on various aspects of mind challenges. The challenges are How to adopt a positive mindset, how to repair broken relationships, how to resolve conflict successfully, how to influence others, how to minimize stress and gain energy and how to be more creative. Mind Gym is laid out with challenges at the end of every chapter for the beginner who is looking to make the shift and train the mind, along with advanced challenges for those who are working on further honing their mindset. It is meant to be interactive and read more than once. The way the book was also laid out allowed the reader to skip to the parts they believed they needed the most improvement on and to start there.

I found a lot of the topics relevant to my own experiences and appreciated the examples that were riddled throughout the lessons offered. It offered a better perspective as to what the authors were intending for the reader to work on and eventually accomplish.

Honestly, this isn’t the type of book you should read in one sitting, nor is it the type that you read once and forget about. It is meant to be interactive. It is meant to be slowly digested and really used to train your mind. When reading this one, you really have to be in the mindset that you’re in a place to work on these things and not easily distracted. I, while reading, was none of these things. I was unmotivated, just wanted to get through the book, and felt towards the end that it was more of a chore to read it. This was not because of the writing or the book but due to my own personal reasons. I will seek to re-read this book once I am in a better space and my mind is a bit clearer to focus on the tasks at hand.

I would recommend it for anyone who really wants to work their mind and shift they way they think but you do have to be open to the suggestions and work through the process so make sure you have the time, energy and where with all to fully devote to yourself and this book.