Skift kurs!

Skift Kurs is an excellent book, because it takes brain research seriously while at the same time offering a very fine framework for understanding and working with change in practice. The language is easy to follow and full of lots of concrete examples of what you can do to create change.

The book takes its starting point in social psychologist Jonathan Haidt's description of the human psyche as a rider and an elephant. The rider is our rational, logical and planning side; the elephant the emotional one, based on instincts and automatic reactions. The point is that we think we have to speak to the rider in order to make change happen - but in reality our behaviour is far more governed by our emotional side, that is, the elephant, partly through our habits.

The authors also bring in the path that the rider and the elephant have to tread together. It is the surroundings in which the change takes place, and which also have great significance for whether the change comes to anything in the longer term.

The book focuses on what you can concretely do both to speak to the rider, get the elephant on board with the change and shape the path.