Podcast #1,023: Is Self-Management Overrated?

Self-control, the flexibility to resolve a battle between two competing needs, is steadily touted because the golden key to success. However lots of the hottest concepts about self-control are literally at odds with the way it actually operates.

Right here to unpack among the lesser-understood and counterintuitive concepts round self-discipline and willpower is Michael Inzlicht, a professor of psychology who has studied the character of self-regulation in depth. Within the first a part of our dialog, Michael unpacks the favored ego depletion mannequin of willpower and the way it hasn’t held as much as scientific scrutiny. We then flip to the stunning indisputable fact that the individuals who appear to exhibit plenty of self-control don’t really train plenty of self-discipline and restraint of their lives, that the achievement of targets is extra a operate of getting virtuous needs, and what contributes to having these needs.

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