This book has tremendous value for anyone interested in learning how to achieve their goals more effectively. If you are trying to lose weight, become more successful at work, rid yourself of toxic habits.heck, if you're HUMAN, you need to read this book.' - Library Thing Review 'Each chapter could stand on its own as something helpful, but taken as a whole, this book could be downright life-altering. Using science to explain the why and strategies for the how, McGonigal has created a must-read for anyone who wants to change how they live in both small and big ways.' - Book Page ' The Willpower Instinct is a new kind of self-help book. Stronger willpower-based on inspiring facts, not oppressive nonsense-is finally within everyone's reach.'- Geoff Colvin, author of Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers From Everybody Else 'What a liberating book! McGonigal explains the scientific reality of willpower, exploding the myths most of us believe. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. 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 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.

Giving up control is sometimes the only way to gain self-control.Guilt and shame over your setbacks lead to giving in again, but self-forgiveness and self-compassion boost self-control.Temptation and stress hijack the brain's systems of self-control, but the brain can be trained for greater willpower.Too much self-control can actually be bad for your health. Willpower is not an unlimited resource.It is a biological function that can be improved through mindfulness, exercise, nutrition, and sleep. Willpower is a mind-body response, not a virtue.

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.

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 new science of self-control and how it can be harnessed to improve our health, happiness, and productivity.

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