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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Half Second: How first reactions get installed, and how to edit them. Book.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Most of what a person actually does is decided in the half-second before deliberation arrives.The politician's face tightens before the conscious smile. The parent's voice sharpens before the patience returns. The smoker's hand reaches for the pack before the resolve to quit is recalled. By the standard of stated values, these moments do not represent who the speaker is. By the standard of the half-second, they do.The Half Second is a book about the fast self that runs the day, the mechanism that built it, and the technique that edits it.The mechanism is one. A frequency counter, running below the level of conscious thought, decides what feels familiar, what feels true, and what the body does next. It does not check. It does not weigh evidence. It counts how often a sentence has been heard. The sentence with the highest count wins. Repetition does the work that argument cannot.This mechanism is what advertisers, politicians, religious leaders, and the people who raised the reader have been using to install reactions in the reader's half-second for years. It is also, the book argues, what cognitive therapy works through, what athletes use, what twelve-step programs rely on, and what makes habits stable. The mechanism is the same; the traditions are surface variations.The book teaches the technique that lets the reader use the mechanism deliberately. Short scripts of the form Because I am X, when Y, I do Z, because R, said in the speaker's own voice, in the trigger contexts where the old reaction fires, repeated for months. The author quit a thirty-nine-year smoking habit by saying I never smoke to himself many thousands of times. The same form applies to the snap at the partner, the doomscroll at midnight, the inner voice that attacks the speaker before any external attack arrives.The book is short, austere, and operational. It draws on contemporary cognitive psychology - Wendy Wood, Phillippa Lally, Peter Gollwitzer, Ethan Kross, Larry Squire, Daniel Kahneman - without footnoting itself into a textbook. It dismantles affirmations, NLP, and The Secret with care. It tells the reader, without flattery, what installs and what does not.What the reader does with the writing is the reader's responsibility.…

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Karto. Condition: Gut. Blankokärtchen von Zhang Xiaolai mit blauem Kuli signiert /// Autogramm Autograph signiert signed signee /// Zhang Xiaolei (chinesisch ???; * 12. Januar 1983) ist eine ehemalige chinesische Eisschnellläuferin. Werdegang Zhang nahm in der Saison 2001/02 in Berlin erstmals am Eisschnelllauf-Weltcup teil, wobei sie den 16. Platz über 1500 m sowie in der B-Gruppe den 12. Platz über 3000 m errang und kam bei den Juniorenweltmeisterschaften 2002 in Klobenstein auf den neunten Platz im Mini-Vierkampf. Beim Saisonhöhepunkt, den Olympischen Winterspielen 2002 in Salt Lake City, belegte sie den 28. Platz über 1500 m und den 23. Rang über 3000 m. In der Saison 2005/06 erreichte sie in Calgary mit dem zweiten Platz in der Teamverfolgung ihre einzige Podestplatzierung im Weltcup und lief bei den Olympischen Winterspielen 2006 in Turin auf den 34. Platz über 1500 m sowie auf den achten Rang in der Teamverfolgung. In der folgenden Saison absolvierte sie in Berlin ihren letzten Weltcup, welchen sie auf dem sechsten Platz in der Teamverfolgung beendete und belegte bei den Asienmeisterschaften 2007 in Changchun den 11. Platz über 1500 m sowie den zehnten Rang über 3000 m. Zudem errang sie dort bei den Winter-Asienspielen 2007 den zehnten Platz über 1500 m. Bei chinesischen Meisterschaften siegte sie zweimal über 5000 m (2005, 2006) und einmal über 3000 m (2001). /// Standort Wimregal GAD-30.154 WITHIN THE EU: shipping only to GERMANY and AUSTRIA due to the new EPR regulations. zh Gewicht in Gramm: 10.…

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