Change your thinking, change your world. The four-step reframing method, with a wide library of worked examples from life and work. Free, no sign-up. Start anywhere — the course is designed to be dipped into as much as worked through.
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All 82 videos, four and a quarter hours, in the order I teach them. Nothing to sign up for and nothing to pay — click any title and it plays here. You can work straight through, or do what the book invites and dip into whatever catches your curiosity.
Start here — the four steps
5 videos
Everyday reframing 3:23 Step 1 Choose a topic 1:14 Step 2 Surfacing assumptions 1:45 Step 3 Construct the extreme opposite 2:29 Step 4 Design a small experiment 2:07
How to change
8 videos
Good news and bad news 1:12 Dealing with change 1:32 Reframing childhood patterns 2:04 Gradual change 1:59 Proactive change 1:34 Culture is a frame 3:31 You can only change yourself 2:55 Stop pushing, start pulling 2:45
Yourself — self-image
5 videos
Imperfectionists 2:46 Flip the script 2:03 You are good enough 3:00 No one cares 2:00 Reframing pain 3:39
Yourself — decisions
5 videos
Yes and no 2:57 Decisions, decisions, decisions 3:17 JOMO 2:58 Turn off auto-renewal 2:19 Reframing money 3:58
Yourself — acceptance and happiness
6 videos
Reframing irritations 2:44 Reframing chores 2:25 Reframing loss 2:46 The present moment 2:46 The key to a happy life 3:02 The illusion of control 4:15
At work — communication
5 videos
Communication : We do not understand each other 2:14 Communication styles 2:23 Reframing emails 3:06 Reframing meetings 2:59 It's not personal 3:02
At work — time, targets and effort
6 videos
Time, targets, effort : Reframing time: do it faster 3:02 KPIs / Key Persecution Indicators 3:12 Your inner Terminator 4:13 Less is more 2:32 Laziness as superpower 3:34 Quantity and quality 4:24
At work — management and leadership
6 videos
Management & leadership : The unavailable manager 1:46 The best employees say no 2:12 One size fits none 2:20 Reframing rosters 3:54 Reframing the annual review 3:37 From expert to manager 5:33
At work — customers
3 videos
Customers : The customer knows what they want 2:38 Reframing price 2:33 Reframing pitches 4:42
Changing the system
5 videos
Scapegoats 4:25 Love your regulator 2:25 Reframing homework 3:23 Reframing selection 5:14 Reframing student evaluations 4:35
Seeing the system
9 videos
Institutional processes : Reframing processes 5:43 Cause and symptoms 4:09 Reframing bias 3:54 Going full ostrich 5:08 Flows 6:20 Half useless, a quarter damaging, a quarter inefficient 3:22 The numbers lie 4:13 Eight years to eight minutes 4:50 Seeing the system : Self-organising systems 3:41
Going deeper — step 1: choose a topic
1 video
Frustration is a great driver for change 1:01
Going deeper — step 2: surface an assumption
3 videos
Obvious assumptions 1:29 Digging deeper 2:13 Surfacing personal beliefs 3:02
Going deeper — step 3: the extreme opposite
4 videos
The power of artificial opposites 3:13 If you're laughing 1:57 Overcoming emotional resistance 2:59 Trust the absurd opposite 3:48
Going deeper — step 4: the experiment
4 videos
The smallest possible experiment 2:39 Embrace discomfort 2:51 A/B experiments 2:33 Keep trying new experiments 3:16
Where the method comes from
7 videos
First principles thinking 2:07 Clean sheet redesign 1:44 Quine and the web of belief 6:37 Kuhn: paradigms and paradigm shifts 6:39 Doubt everything: Descartes 3:28 The Skeptics 3:26 Foucault and episteme 3:39
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