Tim Powell

Tim Powell’s interest in why people think, feel and behave as they do began with studying psychology and led him to explore a wide range of approaches to personal change. But it was more than thirty years working with thousands of people that brought something else into focus: knowing what to do is often the easy part. Doing it — and continuing to do it — can be something else entirely. Those observations became the starting point for Misaligned Monkey — a simple way of exploring why we sometimes appear to work against ourselves. Tim doesn’t present it as another self-help formula or the only way to look at things. He invites people to test the ideas against their own experience and keep whatever proves useful. At the heart of his work is a simple idea: before trying harder to change yourself, it may help to understand what is already going on inside — and begin getting your insides onside.

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