A psychologist and best-selling author gives us a myth-busting response to the self-help movement, with tips and tricks to improve your life that come straight from the scientific community.

Richard Wiseman has been troubled by the realization that the self-help industry often promotes exercises that destroy motivation, damage relationships, and reduce creativity: the opposite of everything it promises. Now, in 59 Seconds, he fights back, bringing together the diverse scientific advice that can help you change your life in under a minute, and guides you toward becoming more decisive, more imaginative, more engaged, and altogether more happy.

From mood to memory, persuasion to procrastination, resilience to relationships, Wiseman outlines the research supporting the new science of “rapid change” and, with clarity and infectious enthusiasm, describes how these quirky, sometimes counterintuitive techniques can be effortlessly incorporated into your everyday life. Or, as he likes to say: “Think a little, change a lot.”

■作者簡介

李察•韋斯曼（Richard Wiseman）

英國著名的怪咖心理學教授，致力於以科學方法研究許多日常生活中看似無法用理性理解的行為。

曾是獲獎無數的職業魔術師，倫敦魔術協會最年輕的會員之一。後為愛丁堡大學心理學博士，並獲頒劍橋三一學院Perrott－Warrick獎學金，目前負責英國賀福郡大學心理系的研究單位，專門針對鬼魂、奇蹟、魔術、騙術和直覺等心理學進行科學研究。

許多世界級頂尖科學期刊都報導了他的研究，有更多國際媒體，如《時代雜誌》、《每日電訊報》及《衛報》專題介紹他的研究。他更接受過數百個廣播與電視節目專訪，經常與各界名人合作，在BBC等著名媒體上進行以成千或上萬人為對象的大規模實驗。他的實驗上過金氏記錄。著有《讓你瞬間看穿人心的怪咖心理學》（QUIRKOLOGY）等暢銷書。

■譯者簡介

洪慧芳

國立台灣大學國際企業學系畢業，美國伊利諾大學香檳分校 MBA，曾任職西門子電訊與花旗銀行，目前為專職譯者，從事書籍、雜誌、電腦與遊戲軟體的翻譯工作。