1717: This is What Most People Get Wrong About Willpower by Nir Eyal of Nir And Far on Productivity & Positive Habits

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🗓️ 23 August 2020

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Nir Eyal informs us of what most people get wrong about willpower. Episode 1717: This is What Most People Get Wrong About Willpower by Nir Eyal of Nir And Far on Productivity & Positive Habits Nir Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. The M.I.T. Technology Review dubbed Nir, “The Prophet of Habit-Forming Technology.” Nir founded two tech companies since 2003 and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford. He is the author of the bestselling book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. In addition to blogging at NirAndFar.com, Nir’s writing has been featured in The Harvard Business Review, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today. Nir is also an active investor in habit-forming technologies. Some of his past investments include: Eventbrite, Product Hunt, Pantry, Marco Polo, Presence Learning, 7 Cups, Pana, Symphony Commerce, Worklife (acquired by Cisco) and Refresh.io (acquired by LinkedIn). Nir attended The Stanford Graduate School of Business and Emory University. The original post is located here: https://www.nirandfar.com/about-willpower/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1717. This is what most people get wrong about willpower,
0:06.4	by near-all of nearanfarer.com and my narrator Justin Malik reading you blogs every single day of
0:12.4	the year to help you live a more meaningful life. We have five shows covering different topics,
0:17.2	just search for Optimal Living Daily in the podcast app of your choice and subscribe for free to
0:21.4	listen to a bunch of different topics. But for now let's get right to it as we optimize your life.
0:30.9	This is what most people get wrong about willpower, by near-all of nearanfarer.com.
0:38.4	You come home after a long day of work and you immediately curl yourself up on the couch and
0:42.8	binge the latest Netflix craze for hours while you scroll and scroll through your social media
0:47.9	feeds and snack on potato chips even though you're on a diet. You look around and see that garbage
0:53.6	needs to be taken out, laundry needs to be folded and your child's toys are strewn across the living
0:58.5	room floor. The list of productive things you could be doing seem endless, yet you can't seem
1:03.3	to find the willpower to peel yourself off of the couch to do them. Is this a regular occurrence for
1:08.3	you? Do you realize that you aren't in this rut but can't seem to find the willpower to overcome it?
1:13.7	You're definitely not alone in this situation. This is called ego depletion. Ego depletion is a theory
1:20.2	that willpower is connected to a limited reserve of mental energy and once you run out of that energy
1:26.1	you're more likely to lose self-control. The theory would seem to explain your postwork defeat.
1:31.6	But new studies suggest that we've been thinking about willpower all wrong and that the theory of
1:36.4	ego depletion isn't true. Even worse, holding on to the idea that willpower is a limited resource
1:42.3	can actually be bad for you, making you more likely to lose control and act against your better
1:47.4	judgment. The real nature of willpower. In a study conducted by Stanford psychologist Carol
1:54.0	Deweck and her colleagues published in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
1:58.3	Deweck concluded that signs of ego depletion were observed only in those test subjects who believed
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