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Everyday Mind Mastery (Udemy.com)

Learn the easiest way to master your mind and control your life with Ben Franklin's 13x4 and some neat algorithms.

3.8
673 reviews

Created by: Tom Cassidy

Last updated October 2014

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Tom Cassidy's course is built around one idea, Ben Franklin's 13x4 system. You pick 13 things to work on, all tied to one area of life, tackle one per week for 13 weeks, then repeat the cycle four times to fill a year. The rest is framing: talk about willpower, the RAS and a mental script. It is pitched at people who struggle with self-discipline and want something light. The course runs 7.7 hours, and the last update was in 2014.

Fans like how simple it is. One reviewer calls it easy to put into practice, another says it turns classic success ideas into something actionable, and a third calls the speaker great. The complaints are about format and padding. Several reviewers describe an interview or chat with friends and family, not a structured lesson, and say the 13x4 system is thinly explained while ideas get repeated. One says the whole idea fits in five minutes. Another calls it shallow and short-term, and one disliked the quantum mechanics tie-in.

Ratings are middling, 3.8 stars from 673 reviews, and the split is sharp: some find a friendly nudge, others a lot of talk for a small idea. Early reviewers say they took it free, and it is now a paid listing, which changes the math. If the chatty, motivational style appeals, it is a gentle way to try one-thing-at-a-time habit building. Anyone who wants a method with worked examples will do better with a short summary of 13x4 than with 7.7 hours of video.

Best forPeople who like a chatty, motivational style and want Ben Franklin's one-thing-at-a-time idea explained at length.
Skip it ifYou want a tight how-to with worked examples; reviewers call much of it interview-style talk.

Pros

  • The 13x4 idea is simple: one goal per week for 13 weeks, repeated four times
  • Several reviewers call it practical and easy to start applying right away
  • One reviewer calls the instructor a great speaker and enjoyed the whole course
  • Introduces the RAS and the mental script, which one reviewer found new and helpful

Cons

  • Many reviewers call it a loose interview or chat, not a structured course
  • Last updated in 2014, and reviewers say the core idea is repeated across sections
  • Critics say the method is shallow, with few examples or success stories
Simple, powerful and so easy to put into practice. Thanks for sharing Tom and Angela.
Tom Evans, a student

Open to anyone, with no requirements listed, but it suits people new to habit systems more than those wanting depth.

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What you will learn

  • Course Updated September 2014
  • In this course you will learn what the 13x4 system is, why it works so well and how it can be used to master anything and everything.
  • By the end of the course you will be able to customise Ben Franklin's 13x4 to achieve any goal.
  • You will see examples of how the 13x4 can be applied to many areas in life for resounding success.

How it compares

Against the other 1,107 rated Udemy courses in Personal Development on CourseDuck:

  • Rating3.8 out of 5among the lower-rated ones
  • Reviews673#327 of 1,108 by number of reviews
  • Length7.7 hourslonger than 88% of them
  • Last updatedOctober 2014earlier than 99% of them

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Course Description

Welcome to Everyday Mind Mastery, the leading personal development course on Udemy.

Over 75,000 students CURRENTLY enrolled!

So, you might ask - what's the fuss all about?

Well, there are two reasons people seem to like it:

1. Students who do this course end up feeling better instantly, and start creating change in their lives instantly, just by applying the simplest of everyday algorithms in their everyday lives. (In 10 minutes you will know what I mean.)

2. Students immediately start applying the power of one thing at a time to tackle the mastery of any goal; incrementally, marginally, successively.

You want to become better at parenting? This course can help you.

You want to become a better leader? This course can help you.

You want to have a more successful business? It helps with that too.

Why? How? Really?

Yes, and it's all about making it as easy as possible, (but no easier!)

So, do you ever ask yourself, "I KNOW I could be doing more with my life, but HOW?"

Let's face it. You have a busy life with a zillion distractions... and this can lead to a loss of focus, and not getting what you want out of life.

You join the gym in January but by the end of February...

The guitar you bought is in the spare room gathering dust...

You've got a copy of 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People' on your bookshelf, you know it's a great book yet you haven't opened it since 1995...

You decided to learn French, and after 3 weeks you've not got very far and so you decide that maybe Spanish would be better...
and 3 years later you're still just speaking loud English whenever you go abroad...

Sound familiar? You're not alone. Most of the population is in the same boat as you. It's pretty normal. Only a tiny percentage of the people on the planet have the self-discipline of an Olympic athlete.

And I for one, am certainly not in that group. I don't have an iron will. I don't even have a tin will. My will is probably more like cardboard if I'm honest.

Therefore the standard approach to achieving your goals just doesn't really appeal to me, since the standard approach involves ME having to change.

The standard approach is basically just 'have more self-discipline', just 'get better'.

That's why I created a different approach. One that works for me, for (almost) all of us. And I didn't even have to do that much as the great Benjamin Franklin had already done most of the work. I just added a few tweaks, made it even more accessible and added a few thought algorithms to make it even easier to implement.

This approach is to use a system that gets the job done with minimum willpower, this approach involves not having to change.

So, you have two options:

1. Change

2. Be yourself + Use a System

Choose easy. Choose Option 2. Make the smart choice. Take the red pill.

So, instead of increasing our willpower, let's use a system that works with a minimum amount of will. We're still going to have to do the work, it's just that we won't have to use up any of our energy forcing ourselves to do the work.

I'm not afraid of work. In fact, none of us are really afraid of work. We're afraid that we won't stick at things because that's what we've done in the past. We're afraid that if we try we might fail, and so after a while, we'd rather not try.

We're afraid we're not good enough.

We're afraid we don't have enough willpower.

We're not afraid of doing the work, we're afraid that our work won't work!



So, the big question is what's going to be easier for you?

Carrying on the same way, making resolutions, getting disappointed, giving up on yourself, starting to wonder if you're ever going to get what you want out of life?

Or using a system that gets it done with minimum willpower.

Get involved - enrol in the course and join nearly 80,000 students who are already finding that there just might be a better way...

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Oxford Physicist, Internationally Published Author and 'Thought Engineer', Tom Cassidy, has created a system for helping people crack the deepest issues of their lives: self-worth, self-belief, goal-achieving, feeling good, achieving sustainable health and deeply fulfilling relationships.

Tom has combined the wisdom of hundreds of years of the study of global philosophies, human effectiveness, modern findings of behavioural science, recent breakthroughs in the understanding of brain physiology and even the results of quantum mechanics into a practical system for getting things done.

The system takes 'One thing at a time' to a new level: it's monotasking-on-steroids. And best of all, it requires the least willpower of anything you've ever tried. Other than sitting on the couch, of course!

It's basically the shizzle is what I'm saying... Who this course is for:
People who've tried everything else. You know who you are.
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Tom Cassidy - Comprehensivist, Education Reformer, Reasonable Polymath, using continuous development frameworks to help people improve all areas of their lives: self-worth, self-belief, goal-achieving, feeling good, achieving sustainable health and deeply fulfilling relationships.
My mantra is: 'Feel Good. Do Stuff.'
Life's not about meditating on the top of a mountain in Nepal, feeling great, achieving enlightenment for yourself...
And it's definitely not about going through life doing things, without having awareness, being busy, achieving a lot but not being mindful of the bigger picture.
It's about both.
Feel good. Do Stuff.
Feel great about yourself, about life, the universe and everything, but do loads of things as well. Have a family, run a business, learn Italian, travel the world, change the world - Do Stuff.
I mean, why not?
I've spent the last 25+ years combining the wisdom of hundreds of years of the study of global philosophies, human effectiveness, modern findings of behavioural science, recent breakthroughs in the understanding of brain physiology and even the results of quantum mechanics into practical, continuous development frameworks for getting things done.
Systems based on practical algorithms of thought and of operation. Algorithms that are easy enough for most people to do just as they are, without having to change any aspect of their life.

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3.8

673 ratings on Udemy

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By Shankar Ganesh on 8/15/2020

The idea of the Script is empowering!

By Curtis Maupin on 7/25/2020

I enjoyed hearing the way you both presented ideas in a way I hadn't considered.

By Kamil Bkaa on 5/16/2020

Bardzo interesujce podejcie, musz przyzna, e zaciekawio mnie i na pewno sprbuj wykorzysta je w yciu.

By Sue Borchardt on 5/4/2020

pretty simplistic and fluffy. sausage factory isnt a tool, its a platitude

By Tonka Watkins on 4/27/2020

great!!

By Carolyn Simnett on 2/17/2020

Real problems watching on iPad even after downloading. It would start the videos and play for about 30 seconds and freeze. Works well on iphone.

By Tammie Moore on 2/9/2020

Another point of view, than wt you hear in your head!

By Brandon Castille on 11/22/2019

A very intriguing and insightful new way of looking at thoughts and both their causes and effects.

By Rashida Stewart on 10/26/2019

Great info and technique that is definitely usable and easy. I'm also inspired to read Benjamin Franklin's autobiography.

By Christine Cutter on 10/22/2019

Not what I expected at first. However I'm only at part 5, so my mind might change. Honestly I thought there would be more learning vs just an interview. But I have learned a few things so far.

By Jon D'Alessandro on 8/11/2019

So far so good

By Seyed Masoud Moosavi Basri on 6/4/2019

Thoughtful and practical approach!

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  • Updated: icon October 2014
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