INDEED! THE COMPLETE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO RUINING YOUR OWN LIFE LIKE A PROFESSIONAL: The Neuroscience of Self-Sabotage, Bad Decisions, and Why Your ... LIMITS Consciousness, Mind and Reality) - Softcover

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YOUR BIGGEST ENEMY ISN'T BAD LUCK.... BUT THE VOICE INSIDE YOUR HEAD!

You procrastinate even when you know exactly what you should be doing.
You keep making the same mistakes.
You’re trapped in habits you genuinely want to change.
You overthink everything.
You sabotage your own goals.
You make impulsive decisions and regret them afterward.

Modern neuroscience has revealed a shocking truth: your brain is not designed to make you happy, but to keep you alive. It sabotages your happiness, your success, your relationships, your finances, your health, and your future.

If you've ever wondered why success seems harder than it should be, neuroscience have the DEFINITIVE answer.

The very neural circuits that once helped our ancestors survive can still trigger fear, procrastination, self-sabotage, impulsive decisions, cognitive biases, and destructive habits—even when they work against your goals.

Drawing on discoveries from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, behavioral and brain science, this book explains why your brain keeps making choices your conscious mind later regrets—and how understanding those hidden mechanisms is the first step toward changing them.

And this is NOT an opinion, it's how the human brain actually works.

What if overthinking isn't intelligence, or self-sabotage isn't a character flaw...

...but an ancient survival strategy your brain still uses today?

Discover the hidden tricks, shortcuts, and survival algorithms your brain uses every single day—often without your awareness.

Once you recognize them... they begin to lose their power over your life.

Inside you'll find:

• Why your brain prefers familiar suffering over uncertain success.
• The neuroscience behind procrastination, fear, and self-sabotage.
• Why intelligent people often make irrational decisions.
• The invisible cognitive biases shaping your relationships, finances, career, and happiness.
• Why motivation disappears exactly when you need it most.
• How stress quietly hijacks your thinking.
• Why your emotions frequently make decisions long before your conscious mind does.
• Practical neuroscience-based tools to interrupt destructive mental patterns before they control your future.

This is about finally understanding the operating system inside your own mind.

Because once you see the tricks your brain has been playing on you for years...

you can finally stop falling for them.

This book is for anyone who has ever:

• Procrastinated despite knowing exactly what to do.
• Repeated the same mistakes over and over again.
• Felt trapped by habits they couldn't explain.
• Wondered why success sometimes feels strangely uncomfortable.
• Been fascinated by psychology, neuroscience, human behavior, and the hidden mechanisms of the mind.
• Wanted practical scientific insights instead of empty motivational slogans.

Giulia De Ponti is an independent science writer dedicated to making the world's most influential discoveries in neuroscience, psychology, and consciousness accessible to everyone.

Her work transforms complex scientific research into engaging, thought-provoking books that bridge rigorous evidence with clear, compelling storytelling.

Through the Beyond Limits series, she explores the hidden mechanisms of the human mind, consciousness, perception, decision-making, and behavior, helping readers understand how the brain works and why it so often works against us.

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