My book is out today!
Real Change: Moving Beyond Habits to Achieve Lasting Transformation
Hey everyone!
I've got some big news to share with you today—my new book, Real Change: Moving Beyond Habits to Achieve Lasting Transformation, is finally here!
In Real Change, I share powerful insights and practical strategies to help you break free of old patterns and create lasting transformations in your life. This book is the culmination of my experiences as a behavioral scientist, distilled into an actionable guide for anyone looking to make meaningful changes.
If you're at all interested in human psychology, habits, or self improvement, I think you'll love this book. It's my attempt to boil down everything I know about personal behavior change into a concise yet thorough roadmap.
I'd be thrilled if you'd check out both the paperback and Kindle versions here: https://a.co/d/3nkO3dD
This was truly a labor of love. I've been wanting to get the core message out into the world for years, but finally committed to writing the book about a year ago.
Thanks so much for being part of this journey with me. I can't wait to hear what you think! And please, if you have any questions or thoughts after reading it, please don’t hesitate to email me (or leave a comment here on Substack).
- Jason
An Amazon reviewer wrote, "In the text Jason writes: "NOTHING WORTHWHILE and MEANINGFUL is AUTOMATIC and EFFORTLESS."
Do you know anyone who would disagree with that? Try challenging their calcified "convictions" and see how quickly they change their tune. I have an idea that could turn the tide, but it's almost impossible to explain it to anyone in a culture that thinks meaningful results can be magically produced by a never-ending stream of effortless chatter.
I'm sure your book is helpful to those who seek it, but the people who need it most are the last to know (and likely never will). If you know of any fiercely independent thinkers who'd like to solve some problems instead of forever talking about them, please pass along this bit below. Thank you!
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Subject: The rules have changed, as in — there are none. By failing to recognize that, you cannot adapt to deal with it.
In reference to its opening image on Without Passion or Prejudice, I wrote: “Half the country is with me on this and I just lost the other half. Had I started with the image below, it would be the opposite half.” When you make up your mind on lickety-split perception alone — in what parallel universe does that qualify as critical thinking? But in the force fields of fallacy that people hide behind today, you can claim to be a critical thinker and not do anything that remotely reflects its requirements. What was once understood as a demanding process that puts your mind to the test: Is now one Tweet away from glory in the Gutter Games of Government. In this fantasyland where liars are loved as bastions of virtue and people telling you what you wanna hear are “geniuses”:
You can “win” an argument without even knowing what the issue’s about.
And the professionals answer to America suffocating in an atmosphere of absurdity? Endlessly rehashing the same old problems in the same old ways. It’s all an illusion of progress — perfectly captured by John Wooden’s “Never mistake activity for achievement.” But there’s an opportunity to turn it all around — by taking the problem and turning it into a solution. A student wrote of her psychology professor: “Tim Wilson taught me the importance of breaking problems down into more manageable pieces.” Lo and behold, at the bedrock of my idea is exactly that. If you want to start solving problems, first you need to clear the clutter that’s crippled this country. To do that, you don’t go after everything, you go after one thing that ties to everything. And you do it by holding one man to his own “standards”: A professional know-it-all with a cult-like following unlike anything I’ve ever seen.
As I’ve been in the trenches battling hermetically sealed minds for decades, that’s saying something. His disciples see him as some kind of saint-like Sherlock Holmes. And that — is an opportunity! How do we make people realize they’ve been lied to? You have to knock down one small pillar that’s easier to reach. I’ve got the perfect pillar — on the biggest and most costly lie in modern history (which shaped everything you see today). I don’t need mass appeal to make this happen, I just need to get to one man. Long before brain imaging to understand human behavior, we already had all the tools we needed for a hopeful humanity. We didn’t take advantage of the gifts we were given, and what a shocker — we don’t make good use of those fancy new insights either. Your field is forever fighting the forces of human nature whereas my solution banks on it.
I have a very specific target audience to get this in gear, so it wouldn’t take much. One email could set off a chain of events that could open the door to the kind of conversation this nation’s never had. Imagine! There was a time when we did.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Richard W. Memmer