Silent Guides

Understanding and Developing the Mind Throughout Life - The new book from the creator of the Chimpanzee Mind Management Model and author of the million-selling book The Chimpanzee Paradox.

The Silent Guide explores some of the neurological and psychological aspects of the developing mind, unconscious thinking, behaviors, habit formation, and related topics in an easy-to-understand manner. It then offers practical ideas and reflections for the reader to consider using 10 helpful habits as examples.

This book contains two topics:
- Helping adults reflect on and understand where some of their unhealthy or destructive learned behaviors and beliefs come from, and then offering ways to replace them with healthy, constructive behaviors and beliefs.
Providing ideas and support to parents, teachers, or caregivers can help children form healthy, constructive habits and prevent the development of unhealthy or destructive habits.

Examples of unhelpful thinking, behaviors, and habits that can be changed include:
excessive self-criticism
Fear of failure and unforgiving perfection
excessive worry or overreaction to situations
procrastination
Living with low self-esteem

Examples of helpful thinking, behaviors, and habits include:
smile
Overcoming mistakes
Develop a positive outlook
To be able to express your feelings
Seek appropriate assistance
Initiative

Written as companions to The Hidden Chimpanzee, these two related books address how to optimally manage our minds from infancy through adulthood.

Professor Steve Peters explains neuroscience in a straightforward and intuitive way, offering ten simple habits that we, as adults and children, should have to navigate our daily lives. These ten habits should, and can, be maintained for life.