Willpower
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week, we learn what it takes to be a cheesemonger with Steve Jones, proprietor of Cheese Bar in Portland, Ore. We're also looking at willpower with John Tierney, co-author of Willpower, Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength. And Jane and Michael Stern are breakfasting at Green Salmon in Yachats, Ore.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- January 21, 2012 (originally aired)
- January 19, 2013 (rebroadcast)
- December 30, 2016 (rebroadcast)
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| 0:00.0 | Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Ana Gonzalez, through this complicated country. |
| 0:08.1 | We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories, their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing. |
| 0:24.4 | Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts. |
| 0:31.8 | It's the splendid table from 8 p.m. American Public Media. |
| 0:36.4 | I'm Lynn Rosetta-Casper. |
| 0:38.7 | Today it's a new book with new research that claims improving our willpower might |
| 0:44.6 | improve our lives. |
| 0:46.4 | For instance, give children a choice between one marshmallow now or two if they wait |
| 0:52.8 | 15 minutes. |
| 0:57.4 | Now, the ones who wait for two marshmallows will in 30 years probably be healthier, happier, and more affluent. Well, now that's an old study, |
| 1:05.7 | but this new book claims willpower definitely makes for a better life. |
| 1:14.4 | And by the way, you have to feed willpower. |
| 1:18.8 | It runs like a muscle on glucose, and it gets tired. |
| 1:35.3 | Well, stay with us for much more, this hour, on the splendid table. The Splendid Table. This is The Splendid Table from APM American Public Media, the show for people who love to eat. |
| 1:43.0 | I'm Lynn Rosetta, Casper. |
| 1:44.2 | Well, sweetness and power could have new meanings because of the book Willpower, |
| 2:04.0 | rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength. |
| 2:11.9 | In it, research psychologist Roy F. Baumaster explains the links between glucose and self-control and between willpower and how we might change our lives. |
| 2:16.8 | His co-author, New York Times science columnist John |
| 2:20.0 | Tierney, joins us. John, good to have you with us. Well, thank you. So what did your co-author |
| 2:27.2 | discover? Well, he discovered that willpower actually is this form of mental energy and that it's |
| 2:33.7 | powered by glucose in the bloodstream and that this actually is a store of mental energy and that it's powered by glucose in the bloodstream. |
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