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Before Breakfast

Willpower is over-rated

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Self-improvement, Education

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Change your environment, rather than yourself

Transcript

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0:30.1

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

0:37.0

Good morning.

0:40.0

This is Laura.

0:41.0

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

0:44.0

Today's tip is to admit that willpower is overrated.

0:49.0

So design your environment for success instead.

0:52.0

It's easy to intend to have just a few Oreos and then finish

0:57.1

off a whole row. You can promise yourself that you won't hit snooze before you go to bed,

1:02.2

but have a different perspective at 6 a.m.

1:05.4

You can go into the bookstore just to browse and end up buying an arm load of books.

1:10.9

It happens to all of us, so don't feel bad about yourself.

1:15.0

While self-awareness and self-regulation are great, exercising willpower is really hard.

1:21.0

So, rather than relying on willpower too often, when you can change your environment,

1:27.0

so you can make great choices effortlessly.

1:30.0

It can look something like this.

1:32.0

If you have trouble not eating the whole bag of Doritos or the whole pint of Ben and Jerry's,

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