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Really nicely structured as a book. Brings in lots of interesting experiments around willpower and how we can learn from them to more easily reach our goals.
I did find that there were a few contradictions within the findings of the experiments that I was hoping McGonigal would address - i.e. how some experiences have found that feeling bad (guilt and shame) to lead to a reduction in willpower, but then other studies have found that feeling positive (proud of yourself for doing good things) can ALSO lead to a reduction in willpower. The book addresses it in a slightly more nuanced way than that, but I still think some more critical commentary on the limits of planning our lives based on the findings from these studies could have been helpful.
But yeah... overall, very practical and accessible for a book on the science of willpower.
I did find that there were a few contradictions within the findings of the experiments that I was hoping McGonigal would address - i.e. how some experiences have found that feeling bad (guilt and shame) to lead to a reduction in willpower, but then other studies have found that feeling positive (proud of yourself for doing good things) can ALSO lead to a reduction in willpower. The book addresses it in a slightly more nuanced way than that, but I still think some more critical commentary on the limits of planning our lives based on the findings from these studies could have been helpful.
But yeah... overall, very practical and accessible for a book on the science of willpower.