Books about why you think the way you do, and what you can do about it.
Build a mind that works for you in five minutes a day
Small tools · Real science · No guru
Six evidence-based cognitive tools. A five-minute morning routine. Designed for people whose lives don't pause for self-improvement.
"You can control what you think, you can control how you think, and therefore you can control who you are."Eileen Gu, Olympic gold medallist
She's living proof of the destination. These books are the method the rest of us can use to get there.
The cognitive toolkit. Six evidence-based tools that rewire your thinking in five minutes a day.
Available nowWhere it started. Life principles drawn from military experience and fatherhood. Written for my daughters.
AvailableThe evolutionary mismatch. Ancient hardware running in a modern world. Twenty-five techniques for understanding the caveman in your head.
Coming soonHow to get unstuck. Focus, productivity, and the art of doing the thing instead of thinking about the thing.
Coming soonHow to find direction. Purpose, decision-making, and building a life that fits instead of one that just happened.
Coming soonHow to find fulfilment. Joy, meaning, and the difference between happiness that lasts and happiness that borrows from tomorrow.
Coming soonGraduation speech wisdom, tested against the evidence. Sometimes the cliché is right. Sometimes it's dangerously wrong.
Coming soon"Go placidly amid the noise and haste." Ehrmann's poem, line by line, examined through modern psychology.
Coming soon"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs." Kipling's challenge, tested against resilience research.
Coming soonFrom self-doubt to authentic confidence. Identity, voice, fear management, and resilience building for young people.
Coming soonFrom confidence to strategic success. Goal-setting, time management, and skill building for young people ready to act.
Coming soonFrom strategic success to leadership impact. Community, influence, and the skills to make a difference.
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Stephen Pitcher is a former military aviator and writer. He has spent more than forty years exploring how thinking shapes behaviour, and the last three decades investigating the neuroscience behind it.
The journey started with Peale, Ziglar, and Carnegie. The pivot came with Dr Joseph Murphy's The Power of the Subconscious Mind, which stripped the religion from the insight and pointed toward biology. Then neuroplasticity. Then Buzan. Then thirty years of research into why certain ways of thinking produce certain results.
These books are the clearest answers he's found.
He lives in the UK with his family, a dog, and a cat.
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