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Master the Loop

A Visual Guide to How Situations, Beliefs, and Actions Shape Your Life

One loop runs through every day of your life. Learn its six steps and you can see where to step in, whether the thing to change is inside your head or out in the world.

Walk through the loop

The life feedback loop: situation, belief, thought, emotion, action, consequencesA loop of six steps. In the world: a situation. Inside you: a belief, which produces a thought, which produces an emotion, an action, or both. Back in the world: consequences. Consequences become the next situation, and they also confirm or update the belief.Situation1Belief2Thought3Emotion4Action5Consequences6

One model instead of a hundred books

Self-help shelves are full of good ideas that overlap. This book pulls the strongest evidence-based ones into a single picture, so each technique has a place to live.

Inside and outside

Most advice works on the internal half: beliefs, thoughts, feelings. Changing the external half, the situations you are in, is just as powerful and often easier.

Know where to intervene

The goal is a decision tree: given your problem, which step of the loop to work on, and which technique to reach for.

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