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The Kevin Miller Podcast

552: Ben Hardy - Why willpower doesn’t work

The Kevin Miller Podcast

Kevin Miller

Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Social Sciences, Education, How To, Society & Culture, Science, Medicine, Life Sciences, Spirituality, Nutrition, Self-improvement, Mental Health, Relationships

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Ben Hardy has a new book titled, “Willpower doesn’t work”. Friends, this is a profound, profound message. Who has not gotten frustrated at their lack of willpower? Setting goals, having desires, trying to achieve something...and then failure. Wishing we had more discipline and willpower. Ben takes a hardline and paradigm-shifting view to say...relying on willpower is the wrong solution. What is the solution? Listen in and you’ll be mesmerized to hear Ben focus in on how we can design our environment for success, and no longer rely on our grit and willpower. Ben is the #1 writer for Medium.com and just a masterful writer and communicator. And it comes from research. This isn’t just his opinion. You literally don’t want to miss this showOver the past 3 years, Ben's work has been read by over 50 million people and he's grown his email list from 0 to over 320,000 people without paid advertising. Connect with him and check out the book at benjaminhardy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is a Blast Box Media Podcast.

0:05.0

Number one, there's a quote from Dr. Marshall Goldsmith.

0:09.0

He's a really smart psychologist.

0:10.0

And he said that if you do not create and control your environment, your environment creates and controls you.

0:15.0

So that's one.

0:17.0

Point number one is that most people are unaware of how their environment is shaping them.

0:21.0

You know, they're what we would call living reactively rather than

0:24.3

living proactively. If you're proactive you create situations.

0:27.0

Welcome to the Ziegler show where we inspire your true performance. I'm your

0:32.2

host Kevin Miller.

0:33.3

Today we bring you Ben Hardy.

0:35.5

He has a new book titled Will Power Doesn't Work.

0:39.6

Friends, this is a profound, really profound message.

0:43.4

Who has not gotten frustrated at their lack of willpower?

0:46.9

I mean, setting goals, having desires, trying to achieve something

0:50.2

and then not coming through or not going to the length that we wanted to and

0:53.8

feeling like a failure. We all wish we had more discipline and more willpower.

0:57.7

I mean that's just common as anything in the self-help personal development world.

1:02.4

Well Ben takes a hard line in paradigm shape. in the self-help personal development world.

1:03.0

Well, Ben takes a hard line and paradigm shifting view to say relying on willpower is the wrong

1:07.1

solution.

1:08.1

What is a solution?

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