The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It

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This is such a transformative book. It requires you to do the toughest thing though... be honest with yourself. Kelly McGonigal does an incredible job of explaining how our brain works, and why we have these feelings and how to identfy them.In the grand scheme of humanity, the modern society we live in now has only just been invented, and so most of the things our brain does, isn't necessarily required in todays world, but there it is, all still happening. When you first fully understand that neuro-marketing is real, and then how they do it and how your brain responds to such inmputs, this book will kind of give you a superpower... improved willpower, and the ability to get sh*t done.You'll need to actively practice, read and review and you will build the habit and strengthen your willlpower muscle.Knowledge *is* power, and will you be a total Willpower god after reading this? Of course not, but you will have the blueprint to improve it. Stopping the "I've been good, so I'll be bad" mindset is worth the price of the book alone, I challenge anyone to read it and not identify some part of themselves in this book, and then think "Oh yeah, I do that... all the time!"If you're about to take on a tough challenge of any kind, or want to change the way you think or just generally have more control over the things you do (like stopping doom scrolling on social media), this book along with Mindset by Carol Dweck are the two best books I can recommend.Since reading these books (and a few more), in the last two years I've gone from being an uneducated overweight and ignorant estate agent that was blaming everyone else for my own failures, to a rock climbing (not overweight) self taught software engineer working for a Silicon Valley tech company, who can recognise failures, own them, and do something about them.This book is the icing on the cake, and I'll forever recommend it to anyone who wants more freedom in their life.

A marvellous explanation of how willpower is important and how and why it fails..But an unintentional mistake is the parallels drawn between low blood sugar and diabetes; that a diabetic's brain cant use glucose because of insulin resistance..Brain uses glucose independent of insulin, So diabetes doesnt lessen the usagecof glucose by brain..( see Guyton & Hall ..CNS chapter)..

Great book ! Reads very easily with little technical jargon and with lots of anecdotes and light humour to raise your spirits even though you're reading about all your guilty urges and impulses. Has very practical and easy to apply advice into everyday life. Would recommend to anyone.

As a health psychologist and educator at the Stanford School of Medicine's Health Improvement Program, Kelly McGonigal's job is to help people manage stress and make healthy choices. Her great expertise comes from her own research as well as her years of dealing with her patience.Each chapter of the book dispels a common misconception about self-control and gives the reader a new way to think about their willpower challenges. Filled with lots of scientific researches and case studies, the book covers a wide range of willpower challenges of our everyday life, especially our struggle with addiction, whether that be chocolate, drugs, alcohol, procrastination, or Facebook, etc.Compared with the equally great book 'Willpower: Rediscovering our Greatest Strength' by Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney, which was published in 2011, this book by Kelly McGonigal, published only one year later goes much further and covers the topic in much more detail. What I specially like is the authors pragmatical approach, giving us not only the newest scientific research about why we do what we do, but also great advise on how to strengthen our willpower to get more control about our behaviour.This book has been a wonderful discovery for me - would it have been written 20 years ago - I would might have saved years of psychotherapy. It is a book to value greatly and reread again and again. Highly recommendable to anyone, but especially to all people struggling with constant "wrong" decisions, compulsive behaviours and addictions.