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Reviewed by Anne Boiling for Readers' Favorite
I knew I needed this book when I read the blurb, “Motivation doesn't stick around long enough.” This sounds like my need to exercise. I lose motivation. Just as the subtitle states, author Takumi Yamzaki offers readers thirteen exercises to assist the reader in finding the motivation they lost. One of the first suggestions is to find something that makes you happy because it puts you in a good mood. Once you are in a good mood, you are ready to continue. The author points out that two people in the same situation will see it differently. Part of that is the mood you are in at that moment.
Chapters 1-3 cover Self-image, Homeostasis and Scotoma. We need to change our self-image which is how you judge yourself. Our sub-conscious does not want us to change. “It loves us just the way we are.” When I want to lose weight but think I can’t, it is because subconsciously I don’t want to lose.
Homeostasis “refers to the tendency of a system towards equilibrium.” In other words, if I correctly understand the author, the subconscious does not want to change. The equilibrium comes in staying the same.
Scotoma is when “the brain creates a blind-spot...block out information we don’t need so that we don’t have to be bothered with it.”
Shift can be used as an individual study or as a group; however, the process makes more sense as a group. If I correctly understand the text, the key is to convince your subconscious that it wants something. I think I understand the point the author is making. There have been times when I was so motivated to lose weight that I set my mind to it, stuck with it and lost. The key is setting my mind to it. Much of this book is eye-opening. I had never looked at my lack of weight loss as my subconscious liking the status quo. I would have preferred exercises for the individual rather than a group. I’m a layman and have had very few psychology classes. Yet I managed to understand most of the author’s theory. Since I have just read this book, I cannot judge whether the theory works.
