Do you ever feel like you just don't have the willpower to achieve your goals and you're always falling just short of achieving them?

Welcome back to another episode of the Spartan Way podcast.

I'm your host, Zach Evernesh.

We're here in beautiful Boston.

And in this episode, I'm going to be talking about a book

that was super inspiring, gifted to me

by one of our fellow Spartan friends Joe Polish over at the

Genius Network. The name of the book is Will Power doesn't work and it's written by

Benjamin Hardy. It was really intriguing because in my mind I keep

thinking discipline equals freedom. We've heard Jocko Willing say that. I'm thinking about

being mentally tough or Angela Duckworth talking about grit, but the overriding factor in this book is that

eventually your willpower is going to run out.

It's like a glass filled with water.

You start off the day with a lot of willpower, you go

throughout your day, the water starts to go out of that glass and then by the time you

get home your willpower is gone. And it's not so much that the willpower is gone. It's your environment.

So what Benjamin Hardy states in this book is that the way people really succeed is not by having

these bigger goals or by being tough or by being gritty.

He says that it's all about the environment.

So if you change your environment, it changes the outcome, it changes your energy levels, and you now are surrounded by people who elevate,

not so much just your willpower, but your intelligence.

It's an extremely powerful book, and it's going to get you to rethink all of the things you're doing.

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