Based entirely on research from peer-reviewed journals and randomized controlled trials, The Sixty-Second Motivator is an easily read story that reveals practical motivational techniques. In less than 100 pages, readers will have the necessary tools to enable them to motivate themselves or others. A handy worksheet is also included which guides the reader through the motivational process.
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From the Author
The idea for this book came directly from my experiences over the years working with a wide variety of patients at a large university teaching hospital. Even now, a typical day for me could be treating an outpatient with shoulder pain in the morning, and then getting a heart transplant patient out of bed for exercise in the afternoon.
Early on in my career, I realized that no matter how much medical knowledge I had, it was all basically useless unless I could get my patients to do what I knew was good for them, things such as exercising regularly or eating better. After much researching and field-testing, I decided to write The Sixty-Second Motivator as a way of pulling together all the evidence-based techniques I use so that others might benefit from them. (edited by author)
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Having read Jim Johnson's No Beach No Zone weight loss book, I knew WHAT to do, plain and simple, and WHY it was important. So why wasn't I doing what the book laid out as a proven plan for weight loss? It's all about motivation. There's even a chapter on motivation in his weight loss book - but this book takes it one step further, into the science of motivation. Personally I think both books dovetail into one another well, especially if your lack of motivation happens to be in the field of losing weight. The science of how to lose weight permanently, and the science of motivating yourself to do anything. Once again, this is all based on research and not what one guy thinks.
One of the best surprises about this book is the way it is written. Without giving away too much, I can tell you that this book is more of a story than a collection of facts, and reads almost like a mystery. One thing's for sure, it's extremely engaging. I read the whole think in one sitting; the research and strategy don't take volumes to explain or lay out. I'm not one to read huge volumes, and Jim Johnson always makes a concise read devoid of medical mumbo-jumbo. The actual motivation chart takes up one page and really makes you think about what makes your own self "tick". The only excuse for not getting motivated is if you aren't willing to give up one hour of your time, and a little more time spent thinking straight.
This is a simple, easy to read explanation of motivational interviewing - probably the most effective way to help people change. Using a story format helps not only with remembering the information, but with knowing how to apply it, either for yourself, or for someone else. I'm a psychologist, and I'm trying to use this technique more in my work, so I've read professional books, watched DVDs, talked to colleagues, etc. I can honestly say this little book has probably helped me just as much as any of those. Highly recommended.
This is a great little book. It is written in a light style that makes it easy to read and digest the principles that Jim spells out. If you have ever tried to make a change and been unsuccessful in accomplishing your goal this little book will help you to understand why you failed and how you can increase your chance of success. I found it to be helpful both with my own personal goals and in better understanding what may help to motivate my clients to achieve their stated goals.
Forget the motivational seminars, DVDs, and CDs. This little book has more insights into motivation than anything else I have seen! No hype here.
The author has taken complex concepts and made them easy to understand in an entertaining way. I use the practical tips not only to motivate my patients, but also to motivate myself!
Using Jim Johnson's book, The Sixty-Second Motivator, in just 1-2 hours (the time it takes you to read this book), you can learn what it often takes courses, lengthy DVDs, and major volumes to teach. Johnson bases this work on research results (rather than simply on his own personal experiences), but in a friendly, low-key, well-written, enjoyable, easy-to-understand manner, he offers practical tips and valuable insights about why we do and do not do things. This book is more of a story than a collection of facts, and it reads more like a mystery. Do you want to know what makes you "tick"? This 80-page book has the answers. It is value-packed!The Sixty-Second Motivator
The Sixty-Second Motivator (2006) is the first book I've come across since I've started reviewing books that I've had mixed thoughts about. Honestly, the book has a lot going for it, and I would probably give it to a friend to read, but I don't suggest you spend your hard earned money on it when there is better information available on the internet for FREE.
In a nutshell, the book is in the form of a short story about a young physical therapy student who wants to know how to motivate his patients to move around and stuff. He hears about this legendary therapist known as `the sixty-second motivator', earned from his reputation in having the ability to motivate anyone to do anything in exactly one minute or less. Young student meets legendary therapist, and then the rest of the book follows the two as the therapist attempts to motivate old people to walk around, while the young whippersnapper marvels in his glory. Oh, and it's a very quick read too, with about 10 or 20 pages of information spread out to about 80 thanks to its big text - a trick we all learned in primary school.
"Well, let's just say at this point I have some good news and some bad news. Which do you want first?" "Oh boy," said the patient. "I guess give me the bad news first." (p. 53)
In light of the above quote from the book in question, I will begin this review by outlining my disappointments before I branch out into its strengths. Naturally we like to hear our news in this order, so I will comply. Funnily enough, the book's first weakness could also be considered by some to be its strength: the book is just far too simple in its exploration of a very complex subject such as motivation.... Rather than explain the underlying reasons why we become motivated to make a change, the book instead hammers two basic methods for motivating people, and never really explains why the motivation occurs in the first place. Firstly, you should know that the book's definition of motivation is as follows:
"Motivation can be thought of as how ready a person is to change. Therefore: A highly motivated is very ready to change. While a poorly motivated person is not ready to change."
Pretty simple right? Well get used to it, as that's about as tech as this book gets.
The book stresses that only two things are necessary in order to motivate someone to do something, they are:
Importance - increasing importance of changing a behaviour creates more motivation. Confidence - increasing your confidence that you can change a behaviour creates more motivation.
Ok, fair enough. The next problem with the book is that it uses poor examples of how this can be used to motivate a person. Seeing as the author is a physical therapist, all of his examples pretty much revolve around old men and women who don't want to do their exercises. It is difficult to apply these scenarios to more realistic situations where one would need to be motivated, and honestly, the book doesn't offer the reader any motivation to try and modify the examples to fit their own. The next problem I have with this book is the editing, I know this won't be a problem for many of you, so I won't stress it, but I found a lot of grammatical errors and places where the flow of the writing was affected by poor choice of words. It was as though a child had written the book for a school project, and had never read it twice to make sure it was up to standard. Considering how short the book is, and the fact that it demands that people pay money to read it, there is no excuse and it loses points in my mind. If I was marking this book as a school assignment, I'd give it a lousy mark for editing. Now if I was a publisher... Oh boy.
Another problem I have with the book is its lack of research. The writer makes almost no effort to produce any research to back up his findings. There is one stage in the book where the protagonist looks up some psychological databases on the computer and finds a really crappy experiment where smokers are assigned to two groups, one group is told to quit smoking as it's bad for their health (which they obviously already knew), while the other group is motivated by professionals to quit. They follow up a year later and find that the smokers in the second group had a higher quit ratio than the first group. Well duh. I could log into a psychological database right now and dig up some research which is more interesting, more important, and less obvious in sixty seconds. Again, for me this drives home the point that the author is lazy and hasn't done his homework - alarm bells are ringing since the author 'should' be more motivated. The end of the book even has the audacity to include a reference page which contains no more than 5 references... This is pretty weak considering that in first year psychology we had to provide more references than that for even a short 500 word summary on a subject such as motivation.
The last problem I had was its focus on motivating others and its almost total lack of information on how to motivate yourself, which is the reason, I imagine, most people are buying this book in the first place. Not a big assumption to make considering
1 . It's a self-help book. 2 . The cover states clearly: `How To Motivate Yourself To Do Anything' 3 . The cover boasts that it is `A Book That Will Change Your Life!' (We've all heard that one before!)
The only effort this book makes at applying the lessons learnt to motivating yourself is a single page at the very end of the book which provides a checklist of obvious questions to ask yourself, such as `what would it be like if you reached your goal?'. If you don't already know how to ask yourself questions like that, then you don't need a book on motivation, you need a new brain.
Finally, I arrive at the book's strengths. Phew!
1. The book is short. So short in fact I read it in one sitting, half of which occurred on the toilet, the other half on a chair outside while I smoked a cigarette. No, I didn't find myself motivated to quit after reading this book. 2. The book is written in a short story format, which makes it easy to read and a lot more engaging than your average self-help book. 3. The text on the page is nicely laid out, a good sized font that is well spaced - easy on the eyes. (Well the font size covers up a big negative that I mentioned earlier, but I'll give it this one) 4. The book is short, oh wait, I said that already.
If this book were a pamphlet that you could get for free at the doctor's office, then I would have nothing but praise for it, but seeing as how it attempts to pass off as a well researched and clever book on motivation, that is also deserving of your money, I can't justify it at all.Read more ›
