21: Benjamin Hardy | What to Do When Willpower Doesn't Work
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 25 March 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin Hardy (@BenjaminPHardy) has been the number one writer on Medium since 2015, is nearing the completion of his PhD in organizational psychology, and is the author of Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success.
"If you have to use willpower, it's because you actually haven't made a choice yet." -Benjamin Hardy
What We Discuss with Benjamin Hardy:- Your personality doesn't shape your behavior; your behavior shapes your personality.
- If you can't create and control your environment, your environment creates and controls you.
- What automaticity is and how it frees you up to be mindful of what matters.
- The four sources of willpower and why willpower doesn't work.
- Your identity is not fixed: how changing your behavior changes how you evaluate yourself -- and who you are.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | your personality and your identity are actually very fluid and if you start changing your behaviors |
| 0:05.2 | in dramatic ways and especially if you start consciously shaping environments around that |
| 0:10.1 | you can change who you are and i think anyone who seeks self-improvement and anyone who's actually |
| 0:14.9 | made dramatic changes in their lives would would say oh i agree. |
| 0:20.4 | Welcome to the show i'm Jordan Harbinger as always i'm here with my producer jason to |
| 0:24.7 | filipo. On this episode we're talking with Benjamin Hardy author of the book will power |
| 0:29.6 | doesn't work. This episode one of my favorite topics all about using your own psychology against |
| 0:35.4 | yourself, against bad habits, against distractions. Today we'll discover that your personality doesn't |
| 0:40.3 | shape your behavior. Your behavior shapes your personality which is of course shaped by the |
| 0:45.0 | environment. We'll also learn how this is all about the environment and how to construct an |
| 0:49.6 | environment that shapes your behavior in the way that you want it to because as we'll discover |
| 0:53.9 | it's impossible to change ourselves without changing our environment first and we'll explore the |
| 0:58.5 | idea that mindlessness when it comes to our environment means you're leaving your development up |
| 1:03.3 | to chance and that of course is dangerous. As usual we have worksheets for today's episodes so |
| 1:08.4 | you can make sure you solidify your understanding of the key takeaways here from Ben Hardy. That link |
| 1:13.6 | is in the show notes at jordanharbinger.com slash podcast. All right here's Ben Hardy. Well thanks |
| 1:20.2 | for coming on the show man. I appreciate that. Yeah man. I'm glad that it worked out. All right so |
| 1:25.8 | one of the key concepts in the book that I enjoyed quite a bit was that our personality isn't |
| 1:33.2 | shape our behavior. Our behavior actually shapes our personality and of course our behavior shaped |
| 1:39.3 | by our environment. So I would love to hear you expound on this. In fact I want to spend the bulk |
| 1:44.1 | of the show talking about the environment our environment or environments because I know a lot |
| 1:50.0 | of people are trying for willpower we always try to get up earlier or go to the gym you know |
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