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Chris, January is the month of willpower.

I feel like a lot of the indulgence in December is going,

I better store up some willpower.

If I eat this chocolate, I'll have more willpower for January.

The more turkey sandwiches I have, they'll somehow replenish my stocks of willpower.

Or like if you don't waste willpower resisting...

Christmas pudding. Third helping of Christmas pudding, then you'll have more willpower for January.

That's... I think that's what's going on in my brain a little bit.

I think that is going on in a lot of people's brains and all of us occasionally

need a reminder that that is not how willpower works. It may not even really exist very much

in the way that you think it does. This is what I need to hear. For today's daily dose,

we're looking back to our first ever episode of What's Up Docs with one of our favourite ever guests.

The wise and thoughtful Kimberly Wilson.

So she's brilliant.

But also this topic is very, very close to our hearts because it underpins a huge amount of health and wellness.

You're told to do a thing that's difficult, whether it's,

you know, lose weight or get fit or any of these things, and you need your willpower. That's what

we're all told about it. But it might be a false friend. I think what we call willpower is

actually misconstrued. And what you think of as a deficiency is probably a failure in other

dimensions. So when you say I don't have enough willpower, my question, if I were your therapist,

would be, okay, so tell me about your original motivation. Tell me about your plan. Tell me about

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