Showing posts with label self-control. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self-control. Show all posts
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Kelly McGonigal: The Willpower Instinct
This is powerful stuff. Applies to work, family, spousal relations, parenting. Athletics.
Interestingly, regular cardiovascular increases your willpower not just to continue exercising, but also to eat better, worker harder, etc.
Monday, August 6, 2012
Don't let 'I want' defeat 'I will' and 'I won't
Time magazine runs the same
kind of article at least once a year - a testament to Americans' endless
battle with self-control. But I have seen these themes deftly treated
in a very different format: in Dallas Willard's 2002 book, Renovation of
the Heart.
Willard is not a brain scientist but a professor of philosophy at USC.
His insights, however, fit well with what current research is revealing.
Kluger quotes Kelly McGonigal of Stanford, author of The Willpower Instinct as saying, "Our brains operate at three levels: I will, I won't, I want. For many of us, the I-want part wins" - even when that means compromising our own well-being.
Willard is not a brain scientist but a professor of philosophy at USC.
His insights, however, fit well with what current research is revealing.
Kluger quotes Kelly McGonigal of Stanford, author of The Willpower Instinct as saying, "Our brains operate at three levels: I will, I won't, I want. For many of us, the I-want part wins" - even when that means compromising our own well-being.
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