The Thinking Fix: Rewire thinking patterns for better results

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Features

• Learn how to notice unproductive thinking patterns when making decisions. 

• Discover a new approach of thinking that helps you move from indecision to clear choices. 

• Find simple techniques that you can use quickly and easily in your daily work. 

• The book helps you build smarter thinking skills to solve business problems. 

Description

This practical book will help you build smarter thinking skills and cut through difficult problems to deliver clarity and action.

In the age of AI, making human connections and understanding people needs to become your ultimate superpower. Through real-world examples and engaging stories, youll learn to spot and test 14 core Thinking Patterns. Youll cure decision paralysis, fix negative habits, and help those around you do the same.

What youll master:

• Spot the pattern: Identify which Thinking Pattern is behind any challenge and how to use it to your advantage.
• Stop overthinking: Catch unproductive thoughts in real time, before they de-rail critical decisions or projects.
• Take action fast: Use simple, practical techniques to clear the mental fog that often blocks progress, and move forward with confidence.
• Gain clarity: Transition from decision paralysis to decisive action.

Praise for The Thinking Fix:

A book thats both practical and genuinely enjoyable.

Susan Morris: Chief Business Development Officer at Neals Yard Remedies

This book manages something rare: it makes you feel that you understand something important for the first time, then immediately shows you how to use it. Essential reading for anyone who leads change for a living.

Aron Gelbard: Co-Founder & CEO at Bloom & Wild

I love the stories, definitely how I learn best, and they bring the points to life. The underlying premise that if you understand how people are thinking and why, then you unlock blockers and channel energy. There are very clear descriptions of the behaviours and patterns. I could see myself using some of the examples in workshops or as an awareness moment. Or indeed in one-to-one coaching.

Liz Benison: Group People and Technology Officer at ISS

One of those rare books that changes how you see everything meetings, decisions, disagreements, even your own instincts and it makes rigorous behavioural science feel immediately usable.

Phil Barden: Brand Expert and Author of Decoded. The Science Behind Why We Buy

Who is The Thinking Fix for?

The book is aimed at business consultants, project leaders, and professionals managing multi-faceted projects in complex environments. It is highly applicable for anyone dealing with or managing people, helping to navigate conflicting ambitions, egos, hopes and fears. A practical Thinking Fix can debug a team's flawed logic and break through stubborn resistance.

How does The Thinking Fix work?

The Thinking Fix gives professionals a step-by-step guide to spot and handle the hidden thinking behaviours and habits that shape business choices. Built on solid behavioural psychology, the book brings its ideas to life with real-world stories.

Throughout the book, the authors uses the UK Post Office Horizon Scandal as a main example to show how ignoring these mental defaults can lead to total disaster.

Our Thinking Patterns exist for a reason: Every mental shortcut we use evolved because it was once helpful.

However, they can still backfire: Just like our natural craving for sugar and carbs kept us alive when food was scarce, it can harm our health today if we don't keep it in check. Our Thinking Patterns work in exactly same way.

The Thinking Fix helps you spot these mental patterns in action, figure out when they are helping or hurting you, and reshape them to achieve much better results.

Sample Content

Table of Contents

1.Finding and Lining Up Thinking Patterns for Results Introduction

2. Constructing Patterns Diagnosis Building a Case

1. Focused Thinking Framing Pattern
2. Stories get Results Narrative Pattern
3. The Goldilocks Level - Confidence Pattern
4. Trust Your Gut, Sometimes Intuition Pattern

3. Reducing Patterns Diagnosis Breaking it Down

1. Keep Your Eyes Open Incomplete Information (What You See Is All There Is)
2. Open Everyones Eyes Full Information (What You Know Everybody Knows)
3. Finding Gold Confirmation Bias
4. Repent at Leisure Availability Pattern
5. Holding On, and Letting Go Ownership Pattern

4. Shortcut Patterns Diagnosis More Haste

1. Ask me an Easy One Substitution
2. How Can it Be Wrong when it Feels So Right? Intensity Matching
3. What Stands Out Novelty Scanning
4. Paint me a Picture Models, Maps, & Metaphors
5. Left a Bit, up a Bit Rules of Thumb

5. Experience Patterns Diagnosis Do you Feel it?

1. Thats Not How I Remember it Creative Memory Pattern
2. Im 99% Sure on This One Risk Reward Pattern

6. I Can See Where You Are Going With This Conclusion

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