One of the world's most esteemed and influential psychologists, Roy F. Baumeister, teams with New York Times science writer John Tierney to reveal the secrets of self-control and how to master it. "Deep and provocative analysis of people's battle with temptation and masterful insights into understanding willpower: why we have it, why we don't, and how to build it. A terrific read." —Ravi Dhar, Yale School of Management, Director of Center for Customer Insights Pioneering research psychologist Roy F. Baumeister collaborates with New York Times science writer John Tierney to revolutionize our understanding of the most coveted human virtue: self-control. Drawing on cutting-edge research and the wisdom of real-life experts, Willpower shares lessons on how to focus our strength, resist temptation, and redirect our lives. It shows readers how to be realistic when setting goals, monitor their progress, and how to keep faith when they falter. By blending practical wisdom with the best of recent research science, Willpower makes it clear that whatever we seek—from happiness to good health to financial security—we won’t reach our goals without first learning to harness self-control.

Based on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal's wildly popular course "The Science of Willpower," The Willpower Instinct is the first book to explain the science of self-control and how it can be harnessed to improve our health, happiness, and productivity. Informed by the latest research and combining cutting-edge insights from psychology, economics, neuroscience, and medicine, The Willpower Instinct explains exactly what willpower is, how it works, and why it matters. For example, readers will learn: • Willpower is a mind-body response, not a virtue. It is a biological function that can be improved through mindfulness, exercise, nutrition, and sleep. • Willpower is not an unlimited resource. Too much self-control can actually be bad for your health. • Temptation and stress hijack the brain's systems of self-control, but the brain can be trained for greater willpower • Guilt and shame over your setbacks lead to giving in again, but self-forgiveness and self-compassion boost self-control. • Giving up control is sometimes the only way to gain self-control. • Willpower failures are contagious—you can catch the desire to overspend or overeat from your friends­­—but you can also catch self-control from the right role models. In the groundbreaking tradition of Getting Things Done, The Willpower Instinct combines life-changing prescriptive advice and complementary exercises to help readers with goals ranging from losing weight to more patient parenting, less procrastination, better health, and greater productivity at work.

Willpower - the ability to control your attention, emotions, appetites and behaviour - influences your physical health, financial security, the quality of your relationships and your professional success. We all know this. But why is it so hard to control and why, sometimes, do we have so little of it? Maximum Willpower brings together the newest insights about self-control from psychology, economics, neuroscience and medicine, explaining how we can break old habits and create healthy habits, conquer procrastination and manage stress and emotions. Discover why we give in to temptation and how we can find the strength to resist.

Here's How You Can Break Bad Habits, Develop Mental Discipline, And Get One Step Closer To Your Goals! Imagine if there was a start-over option in life. Just like in video games, you could press one button and "Restart Mission" - avoiding previous mistakes and achieving your goal faster. Would you press that button? No, this is not a time-traveling book that will help you restart your life's mission, but it's as close you can get to a start-over as possible. Learn How To Build Mental Toughness, Positive Discipline, And Change Your Mindset - Starting Today! Remember the last SuperBowl you watched. Both teams had talented players. Both teams had worked really hard to get there. Both teams had the same chances of success. So, what was the difference-maker? The answer is simple; willpower. Willpower, or mental discipline, is a game-changing mindset that allows MMA fighters to knock out their opponents, entrepreneurs to build wealth, and everyday people, just like you, to get that promotion, shed those stubborn extra pounds, learn that new skill, save more money for a dream vacation, and feel more dominant than ever. 5 Steps That Will Unleash The Power Of Mental Discipline: Ian Tuhovsky, the best-selling author of "Communication Skills Training", ”Self-Discipline: Mental Toughness Mindset", and "Mindfulness: The Most Effective Techniques", has created a simple, step-by-step self-discipline book as a part of his Positive Psychology Coaching Series, which will help you: ✅ Understand The Power Of Mental Discipline: why is it important? How can conscious discipline help you succeed in life? ✅ Break Your Own Barriers: changing your mindset is not as easy as it sounds. Break bad habits and start forming new ones. ✅ Build Self Belief & Confidence: this mental toughness book will make developing self discipline easier than ever. ✅ Plan Like A Mastermind: overcome fear, be prepared for obstacles, and develop a plan to enhance mental focus. ✅ Hack Your Way To Better Discipline: learn the difference between effort Vs talent, understand the value of willpower, and control the mind with this easy-to-follow self discipline mental toughness guide book. ✔️A SPECIAL GIFT FOR YOU: Link to download my 120-page e-book “Mindfulness Based Stress and Anxiety Management Tools” at no additional cost! What Are You Waiting For? Stop Slacking Off, Scroll Up & Hit That "Buy Now" Button! It's The Only Way You Will Harness The Power Of Mental Discipline!

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Former pro tennis player, Kerry Johnson, shows us how to will power. With all the good intentions in the world to accomplish our goals we cannot move forward without willpower, without self-discipline. Among the lessons you will learn are how to change disbelief in your abilities into beliefs that support your dreams; how you limit yourself and how to do to break free from the very things that hold you back. In addition to having been a pro athlete, Kerry Johnson received an MBA and a Ph.D.; he lives and breathes self-discipline. Through his experience, and his knowledge as a research psychologist, he will teach you how you can achieve self-discipline. As a father, he shows you how to teach it to your children as well.

Ainslie argues that our responses to the threat of our own inconsistency determine the basic fabric of human culture. He suggests that individuals are more like populations of bargaining agents than like the hierarchical command structures envisaged by cognitive psychologists. The forces that create and constrain these populations help us understand so much that is puzzling in human action and interaction: from addictions and other self-defeating behaviors to the experience of willfulness, from pathological over-control and self-deception to subtler forms of behavior such as altruism, sadism, gambling, and the 'social construction' of belief. This book integrates approaches from experimental psychology, philosophy of mind, microeconomics, and decision science to present one of the most profound and expert accounts of human irrationality available. It will be of great interest to philosophers and an important resource for professionals and students in psychology, economics and political science.

We rely on willpower to create change in our lives...but what if we're thinking about it all wrong? In Willpower Doesn't Work, Benjamin Hardy explains that willpower is nothing more than a dangerous fad-one that is bound to lead to failure. Instead of "white-knuckling" your way to change, you need to instead alter yoursurroundings to support your goals. This book shows you how. The world around us is fast-paced, confusing, and full of distractions. It's easy to lose focus on what you want to achieve, and your willpower won't last long if your environment is in conflict with your goals--eventually, the environment will win out. Willpower Doesn't Workis the needed guided for today's over-stimulating and addicting environment. Willpower Doesn't Work will specifically teach you: How to make the biggest decisions of your life--and why those decisions must be made in specific settings How to create a daily "sacred" environment to live your life with intention, and not get sucked into the cultural addictions How to invest big in yourself to upgrade your environment and mindset How to put "forcing functions" in your life--so your default behaviors are precisely what you want them to be How to quickly put yourself in proximity to the most successful people in the world--and how to adapt their knowledge and skills to yourself even quicker How to create an environment where endless creativity and boundless productivity is the norm Benjamin Hardy will show you that nurture is far more powerful than your nature, and teach you how to create and control your environment so your environment will not create and control you.

This is an incredible story. The author, a failed, alcoholic Wall Street trader, had retreated to a monastery. It, too, was failing. Then, one fateful day, Brother Ty decided to let God be his broker--and not only saved the monastery but discovered the 7 1/2 Laws of Spiritual and Financial Growth. Brother Ty's remarkable success has been studied at the nation's leading business schools and scrutinized by Wall Street's greatest minds, but until now the secret to his 7 1/2 Laws of Spiritual and Financial Growth have been available only to a select few: • 87 percent of America's billionaires • 28 recent Academy Award winners • Over half the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize • No members of the U.S. Congress Now, for the first time, Brother Ty reveals the secrets he has gleaned from the ancient texts of the monks, and tells how you can get God to be your broker. God Is My Broker is the first truly great self-help business novel. Open this book and open your heart. It will change your life.