216: Willpower Doesn't Work - Author Interview with Ben Hardy

Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod

Hal Elrod

Education, Self-improvement, Business

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🗓️ 25 April 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Benjamin Hardy has been the #1 writer on Medium.com since 2016. He writes about self-improvement, motivation, learning, and entrepreneurship, organically receives over 1,000 new email subscribers daily, and works to help his readers live in alignment with their highest values and visions.

Last month, Benjamin sent me a copy of his new book, Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success. I started reading it immediately and was hooked. It's phenomenal. Challenging everything we've been taught about what it takes to improve our lives, ourselves, and achieve our goals (hint: it's not willpower), Benjamin enlightens us with a new paradigm that I believe is revolutionary in personal development.

Today, he joins the podcast to talk about the book, what it means to be 100% committed to anything you truly want to achieve, and the power of shaping your environment. If you've ever set goals and fallen short of them, this is a must-listen.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams. I am your host Hal Elrod and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable
0:14.3	strategies to take your life to the next level as well as interview world-class
0:18.4	experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves and we ask them to give you a
0:24.0	peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do to do the same.
0:28.0	Ready, here we go. Willpower doesn't work. Let's be honest, you've tried to improve your life a
0:39.6	million times and a million times you've come to back to the drawing board frustrated.
0:45.0	You've tried willpower to kick a bad habit but fell back into old patterns.
0:48.8	You've tried New Year's resolutions, but by February, everything reverts back to how it has been the year before.
0:55.0	You've set big life-changing goals but seem to find yourself far short of them despite hard work.
1:01.0	After enough failure, it's easy to conclude that you are the problem.
1:06.1	You must not have what it takes, the grit, the inner strength, the willpower.
1:10.5	Perhaps you should just settle for the life you have. But what if that assessment was all wrong?
1:16.0	Welcome to the Achieve Your Goals Podcast. This is your host Hal Elrod and what I just read to you was the first page of the introduction of my favorite new book,
1:26.2	Will Power Doesn't Work, Discover the Hidden Keys to Success by Benjamin Hardy.
1:31.7	I just was chatting with Ben before we are starting this interview.
1:35.5	I'll bring him on here in a minute and I was just geeking out on how much I am loving this book.
1:41.5	I'm only, you know, I'm a third third of the way through it I just got it a couple
1:44.1	days ago but phenomenal and I told him I said this is going to be or this is one of the
1:50.1	Bibles of personal development or self- Improvement and it is so it's so fundamental
1:57.4	but not fundamental in a way that we've heard before.
2:00.9	It's fundamental in a way that challenges everything that we've learned,
2:06.0	everything we've been taught about what it takes to improve our lives, ourselves,
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