The Psychology of Human Behavior: How People Decide, Persist, and Sabotage Themselves - Softcover

Rusly, Fendi

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798181813229

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

You already know what you should do. So why isn’t it done?

Eat better. Start earlier. Save more. Finish the project. The knowledge is not the problem — it never was. The gap between knowing and doing is where most ambitions quietly die, and most people blame the same culprit: weak willpower.

This book offers a better explanation.

The Psychology of Human Behavior: How People Decide, Persist, and Sabotage Themselves maps the silent machinery behind everyday behavior — the habits that run without permission, the motivation that pays out at beginnings and vanishes in the middle, the biases that bend decisions, and the old protective patterns that make people undermine their own success.

Inside, you will discover:
• Why most behavior is automatic — and why awareness comes last
• How habits are built, why they never truly disappear, and how to reroute them
• Why motivation is anticipation, not fuel — and why it fades exactly when you need it
• Why procrastination is emotional avoidance, not laziness
• Why willpower fails at night — and what disciplined people do instead of fighting
• The hidden biases behind everyday choices: sunk costs, loss aversion, the pull of now
• Why goals fail at conception — and the four-word rule that protects them
• The real anatomy of self-sabotage: fear of failure, fear of success, perfectionism, and the comfort zone
• How identity quietly enforces old behavior — and how to change what it enforces
• How real change actually happens: staged, environmental, social, and built to survive relapse

Each chapter opens with a real-world scenario, explains the psychology behind the pattern, and closes with reflection questions that connect the concepts to your own life.

This is not another willpower system. It is an explanation — and explanations are what make change possible. When you understand the machinery, you stop treating yourself as an enemy to be defeated and start working as an engineer: studying the system, adjusting it, and running it long enough to see what it can really do.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798181813229
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96
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