Now, why is it that some people can stick something out longer?

They can seem to push past adversity repeatedly when it feels like for you

or for, not you specifically listening, where it might feel like for you or for many people,

that you look at people who do that and you think, how are they doing it? When I come across the

first hurdle or the first bit of adversity, I falter and I'm back at square one and then I can't push through. I get tempted. I don't

have self-control. I might have the drive to follow through with something, but when it comes

to saying, no, I can't do it. Why is that? Okay. What is the difference between those people's

brains and your brain? They have this ingrained belief

and this ability that when things are hard and when things require effort, it is effort

that they are willing to give. And that is where willpower comes in. Willpower is this will require an effort that I am willing to give.

People who struggle to stick something out or have no self-control or can't resist temptation,

see it as this requires more effort than I am willing or able to give.

So it requires more willpower than I think I have,

and therefore I cannot administer said willpower, and therefore I want. Okay. Now, the interesting

thing about going back to this part of the brain, athletes and people that are constantly,

you know, putting themselves in difficult situations and constantly overcoming new adversities and constantly testing themselves again and again and again.

They have a larger area in the brain that anterior mid-singulate cortex is larger than someone

who doesn't do that all the time.

Okay.

So you're also starting to say that it's, yes, you could

look at it as a psychological thing, but it's very much a physical change in the brain that's

occurring, that then allows someone to have more willpower, to have more of this belief that,

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