Reddit reviews Self-Directed Behavior: Self-Modification for Personal Adjustment

No problem, friend. I'm actually a computer engineering student right now, and with any luck I'll get a masters in electrical in a few years. I learned about behavioural psych when I happened to take psychology as an elective, and my professor happened to do it professionally. One of the reasons I love it so much is that before learning about it, I had gone deep into all sorts of other fields of psych in some weird attempt to change myself/find "answers"/understand others and it only truly lead me to confusion at best, and dread at worst. Then I found out about this strictly empirical and evidence based approach to it and thought "woah, this actually makes sense", and after reading about self-management it was like I finally found what I was looking for.


About that book, if you look at the 10th edition on amazon, you'll find that it's pretty pricey. Not to worry, you can find an past edition for about 10 bucks used. You can also check other used book sites like abebooks or thriftbooks. I personally bought the 9th edition for myself, but I've read the 6th edition too since it's at my uni library, and even that one is perfectly fine, you won't be missing much at all. (If I'm being totally nitpicky, I think I'd go with the 6th edition, because in the 9th edition I noticed they incorporated and emphasized some non behavioural research. It's totally minor though. I just get super particular about books.) I feel like I have to type that out as a footnote whenever I rec that book lol.