It's all about controlling my inner chimp - How will I be using the 'Chimp Paradox' Mind Management programme to develop my confidence, success and happiness?

The 'Chimp Paradox' Mind Management programme created by Professor Steve Peters is all about developing your confidence, success and happiness. The groundbreaking mind model programme has been used by professional sports stars and is considered a highly inspirational and insightful book, providing insights into controlling our minds to create successful outcomes. The image on the left side below of the post portrays a basic overview of the chimp paradox model. This mind management strategy can be quite deep and takes a lot of time to understand, however from a brief overview, us as humans have have three psychological brains in our model, the frontal, limbic and parietal, and these are called the 'human, the chimp and the computer'. The frontal is the human, and the limbic is the 'Chimp - an emotional machine'. The problem is that the two parts are not in agreement about most things, and therefore in different situations the chimp and your human mind can work together to create a positive outcome, other time, repel and create a negative outcome. Therefore in short, its about using mind management techniques to control your inner chimp and control the outcomes using your human brain as opposed to jumping to an outcome without thought. Therefore this model above is showing how the chimp can either feel danger or threat depending on the situation, and how the the outcome will be determined.

The book is broken down into several parts (image: right) and I'm currently only a third through, and so far have learnt a lot of insightful mind management strategies, and developed an understanding of how we think. Therefore this mind management model will be an excellent tool to monitor my experiences on placement and how I dealt with different situations, and I will be updating my thoughts throughout my blog. 


References:

Chimp management. (2012). The Journey. Available: http://chimpmanagement.com/theprogramme.html. Last accessed 1st February 2015.

Prof Peters, S (2012). The Chimp Paradox: The Mind Management Programme for Confidence, Success and Happiness. Croydon: Ebury Publishing.