307. The Neuroscience of Willpower: How to train your brain to do hard tasks
Do You F*cking Mind?
Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa - Neuroscientist and Mindset Coach
4.9 • 914 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Your brain does what you teach it to do – so I'm going to take you through the neuroscience of willpower, and how to get yourself doing tough tasks. And I don't just mean running a marathon, it could even just be unlearning habits that aren't helping you life your best life. Let's get into it.
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- Listen to my episode 'Your Pain and Discomfort is Your Ticket to the Life You Want' at https://pod.fo/e/1f82eb
- Watch/Listen to Andrew Huberman’s interview with David Goggins on the Huberman Lab podcast titled ‘How to Build Immense Strength’ at https://bit.ly/3SOcZ8z
- Read 'The Tenacious Brain: How the Anterior Mid-Cingulate Contributes to Achieving Goals' Touroutoglou A, Andreano J, Dickerson BC, Barrett LF. The tenacious brain: How the anterior mid-cingulate contributes to achieving goals. Cortex. 2020 Feb;123:12-29. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2019.09.011. Epub 2019 Oct 9. PMID: 31733343; PMCID: PMC7381101. At https://bit.ly/3wn9DBU
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| 0:17.0 | Someone told me you could live with half a brain. |
| 0:19.4 | This is Do You Fucking Mind, Mindset Hacks for a Badass Life? |
| 0:23.3 | Hosted by me, Alexis Fernandez. |
| 0:25.6 | Hello everyone and welcome to the episode of today. |
| 0:29.4 | So the episode of today is going to go into the neuroscience of willpower and tenacity. |
| 0:36.0 | Now, this is a really interesting episode. It talks about |
| 0:39.8 | kind of ways to help you become more motivated and how the brain responds to you doing things |
| 0:46.7 | that are uncomfortable. I've got an episode that's called Pain and Discomfort is a ticket to the |
| 0:51.1 | life that you want. I can't remember what number it is, but I will reference it in the show notes. And it basically gives you kind of a scientific |
| 1:01.0 | understanding of what's actually going in the brain when you're doing uncomfortable |
| 1:05.2 | things. And it's just really cool because it will hopefully get you more motivated to actually do those hard things because of |
| 1:14.1 | the benefits that happens in the brain and because it actually makes you more likely to do |
| 1:19.4 | other hard things in the future. |
| 1:20.8 | So I'm going to be talking about that. |
| 1:22.0 | Also, there is a study that I'll reference as well that if you want to go more into |
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