Awaken the Giant Within

Three of the ideas you’ll keep

The Clif summary of Awaken the Giant Within pulls out 7 insights. Here are the first three.

1. Make a real decision: it's your decisions, not your conditions, that shape your destiny. A true decision means cutting off any other possibility, so commit and act rather than just 'preferring' a change.
2. Run the pain-pleasure equation on purpose: you'll do more to avoid pain than to gain pleasure. Consciously link massive pain to the old behavior and massive pleasure to the new one, and you stop relying on willpower.
3. Use the Six Steps of Neuro-Associative Conditioning (NAC) to change any pattern: decide what you want, get leverage, interrupt the old pattern, install a new alternative, condition it through repetition, and test that it holds.

The other 4 — and the full 10-minute summary — are in the app.

What’s inside: 9 chapters

The whole summary runs about 10 minutes, read or listened to.

1. Decisions Shape Destiny
2. The Force That Drives Everything: Pain and Pleasure
3. Beliefs: The Power to Create and Destroy
4. Neuro-Associative Conditioning: How to Change Anything
5. Questions Are the Answer
6. Transformational Vocabulary and the Power of Metaphor
7. The Ten Emotions of Power
8. Values, Rules, and a Compelling Future
9. Raise Your Standards and Take Immediate Control