Steve explains that perspective includes seeing the bigger picture, placing events within a time context, and looking at situations from a different angle. Together, these forms of perspective allow the Human to judge importance more accurately.
Perspective
Stabilising Your Mind
ABOUT THIS COURSE
This course explores the importance of perspective and why it is one of the most stabilising skills we can develop in managing our mind. Professor Steve Peters explains that perspective is not one single idea, but an umbrella term that can be divided into three distinct forms.
Steve shows how perspective helps stabilise emotions, prevent self-sabotage, and support long term success. He explains why the Chimp cannot use perspective, why the Human must, and how developing this skill can significantly reduce emotional hijacks.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
This course helps you understand why perspective is so powerful and how to use it deliberately. The focus is on recognising how the Chimp loses perspective and learning how to prime the Computer with practical phrases that bring balance back to the mind.
The Chimp reacts in the moment and exaggerates the significance of events. It carries emotion forward and seeks immediate resolution. It cannot step back, apply time awareness, or consider alternative viewpoints.
The Human uses logic, reflection, and time awareness to place events in context. Developing this skill reduces emotional intensity and prevents small issues from becoming larger than they need to be.
Steve explains how storing simple perspective-based phrases in the Computer allows them to become automatic over time. This helps you access perspective more quickly when emotions rise.
Perspective does not remove emotion completely, but it reduces the strength and duration of hijacks. When practised consistently, it becomes one of the most reliable stabilising tools in the mind.
Meet Professor Steve Peters
Professor Steve Peters is a consultant psychiatrist, bestselling author, and creator of The Chimp® Model. For more than 40 years, he has helped people understand their mind and improve their psychological wellbeing, working across NHS mental health services, education, and elite sport — including British Cycling, Liverpool FC, England Football, and Team GB.
He is the author of several bestselling books, including The Chimp Paradox and A Path Through the Jungle, and continues to teach simplified neuroscience to help people manage their emotions, thinking, and behaviour.
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