Brimic here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

So there are tons and tons of self-help books, blogs, magazines, articles that tell you

that if you do ex things that you'll be happier, richer, more attractive, fitter, more awesome,

I mean, whatever.

And you follow this stuff, it's kind of motivating, but then you find that it sort of wears

off.

You fall off the bandwagon and you're back to where you started and it's frustrating,

right?

Well our guest today makes the argument that all this self-help advice while well intended

doesn't actually work in the long run and what we need to do is edit or change the stories

that we tell about ourselves to ourselves.

Our guest is Timothy Wilson, he's a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia

and he's the author of the book, redirect the surprising new science of psychological

change.

And in this podcast, we're going to discuss his research that he's found about what's

called story editing, which is these stories that we have in our head about ourselves, about

our circumstances, and that if we can edit these stories, change what they are with the

parts of them, that we can fundamentally change our life trajectory and we can become happier,

healthier, etc., etc.

And it's changed that can be long lasting.

So really fascinating discussion.

In fact, his book redirect inspired one of my favorite posts that we wrote on the site,

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