Reinventing Your Life, How To Stay Sane The School of Life, Thinking Fast and Slow 3 Books Collection Set

This three-book collection brings together Reinventing Your Life, How To Stay Sane The School of Life and Thinking Fast and Slow, each exploring different ways people understand themselves, relate to others and make decisions. Across the set, the focus ranges from recognising unhelpful internal messages, to developing self-observation, to examining the contrast between intuitive and rational judgement.

Reinventing Your Life by Jeffrey E. Young, PhD, and Janet S. Klosko, PhD, introduces the idea of “lifetraps” and describes how self-defeating patterns can be changed by identifying and reshaping negative thought patterns using principles of cognitive therapy. How To Stay Sane The School of Life presents approaches such as examining relationships, stepping beyond a comfort zone and exploring new ways of defining yourself. Thinking Fast and Slow looks at why people can be influenced by factors such as bold type, timing and appearance, linking these effects to fast, intuitive thinking and slow, rational thinking.

Included titles

• Reinventing Your Life
• How To Stay Sane The School of Life
• Thinking Fast and Slow

Key details

• Three-book collection set
• Includes titles by Jeffrey E. Young and Janet S. Klosko
• Reinventing Your Life references principles of cognitive therapy
• How To Stay Sane focuses on self-observation and relationships
• Thinking Fast and Slow contrasts fast and slow modes of thinking

Synopses

Reinventing Your Life

The book describes how problems such as unsatisfactory relationships, low self-esteem and feeling unfulfilled can be addressed by changing the messages people internalise. It introduces “lifetraps” as self-defeating behaviour patterns and explains how to recognise and alter negative thought patterns using cognitive therapy principles, without drugs or long-term traditional therapy.

How To Stay Sane The School of Life

This title explores ways to become “a little less tortured and a little more fulfilled” through self-observation, examining how you relate to others, moving beyond your comfort zone and redefining yourself. It is presented as both an explanation of the mind and a guide to facing life’s challenges.

Thinking Fast and Slow

The book considers why people may be more likely to believe something in bold type, why judges may deny parole before lunch, and why attractiveness can be linked to assumptions of competence. It attributes these effects to two approaches to decision-making: fast, intuitive thinking and slow, rational thinking.