The 12 Levers: The Complete Psychological Toolkit for Improving Your Life

The world of self-help is overflowing with advice. Countless books, podcasts, therapies, and videos talk about how to build a better life. For Spencer Greenberg and Jeremy Stevenson, the most essential part of all this advice is the techniques. Techniques answer the million-dollar question: What do you actually do to fix your problem? What do you do to overcome anxiety, maximize productivity, and find inner peace?

After years of research--analyzing 106 self-help books and 23 therapies--they discovered that, from a bird's-eye view, all self-help techniques collapse into just 12 broad strategies: The 12 Levers.

Knowing these Levers can prepare you for so many of the challenges that life will throw at you. You'll learn how to...

• Clarify your intrinsic values to give your life direction
• Overcome fear by using the most scientifically validated anxiety approach in the world
• Alleviate insomnia and out-of-sync sleep routines with techniques largely known only to sleep therapists
• Enrich your downtime by doing more glad-you-did-it activities
• Get more done by understanding the three factors of The Productivity Equation
• Interrupt spirals of self-consciousness using the Attention Training Technique

...and much more.
Together, the 12 Levers form the complete psychological toolkit for improving your life.

Author: Spencer Greenberg,Jeremy Stevenson
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Balance
Published: 07/28/2026
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.2lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780306837463