This section will record the essentials of book the willpower instinct:

What’s willpower?

control exerted to do something or restrain impulses.

I will / I won’t / I want;

Important:

  1. Self-awareness: watching how the process of giving in to your impulses happens;
  2. Exercise / meditation;
  3. Put first things first in morning to avoid exhaustion (The willpower can drain)
  4. Thinking about the benefits;
  5. To avoid licencing effect: how committed do you feel to your goal rather than focusing too much on the progress.
  6. If there is something you have been putting off, motivate yourself by linking it with something that gets your dopamine neurons firing.
  7. Stress-relief strategies that work.
  8. Forgiveness when you fail.
  9. Optimistic pessimism for successfuly resolution.

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