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A review by kimball_hansen
Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success by Benjamin P. Hardy
5.0
This may even be 6 stars. Awesome, awesome book. And I'm even a believer of Willpower. So that's saying something. The author quoted a cussword but he also used a few examples from General Conference. I liked that he brought up the idea of doing away with the 8 hour workday.
Let's dive into the notes:
People who know more about their family history have far greater control over their lives. Human organizations of any form whether families or companies fare best when they are connected with the story of origin.
Success isn't that difficult it mainly involves taking 20 steps in a single direction what most people do is take one step in 20 directions.
A crucial component of resetting your life is writing in your journal but before you write in your journal you need to be in the right mindset. You can prepare yourself with his mindset by listening to something inspiring talking to a friend or doing something good for 30 minutes. You want to put yourself in a peak State before you start writing. Working out, praying, or meditating can help your being have an elevated stage prior to a journal writing.
Your level of success can generally be directly measured by your level of investment. If you're not getting the results you want it's because you're not investing enough to get those results.
We are the casualties of rapidly changing environments. We need to create and control our environment.
If you want to be more motivated increase the stakes for both success and failures.
When you change your environment such as surrounding yourself with different people your thoughts and emotions change. These change your values and aspirations which require you to further alter your external environment. Thus it is by tweaking your conditions that you practically shape who you become. You design your worldview by proactively shaping your external inputs. Most people react to their environment thus leading into ineffective behavior and victim-hood. Your external shapes your internal.
When you shape your environment you have greater control over your thoughts and choices.
We over attach ourselves and identify ourselves with the titles we've been given at work but in reality we are just plain the parts of the roles or acting in roles.
You are not an addict, you're perpetually acting out a role life. Your addiction is a reflection of your environments and your relationships you allowed to be built around you.
The recovery process should always be longer than the laborious process. Most environments you must be conscious of what you're doing and that uses will power to act in desired ways. This is because most environments are optimized for distraction rather than high performance or recovery.
Your body can't grow while you're asleep if you haven't pushed it to its limits while you are awake. The same thing works with the mind if you haven't pushed yourself during those Peak moments, you won't be able to get those sudden Revelation type moments.
If you want a different life you must be a different person in the morning. Ritual triggers that Peak state. That state reminds you what you want to be and how you want to act. You then act from that state as that person for the remainder of the day.
In order to change your environment you need to lighten the load to exert enough Force to repel you out of your current bad environment.
Most people indulge themselves in momentary satisfactions at the expense of a better future. Like when you realize you have something to do or something is hard, you might take a break and check email or social media and allow that dopamine to feel good at the moment.
The fear of the choices you have to make, the more powerful your choices will be. I think I transcribed this one wrong. But it's close enough.
Addictions come from having ineffective default behavior set in place.
A core part of addiction is not being able to Bear what is present in your life. What are you doing to have meaningful relationships you desperately seek to fill that void somewhere else.
We eat half as many meals as we did 50 years ago with friends and family, which means we're half as connected with others.
A boost of confidence is far more long-lasting than a shot of dopamine.
Keeping your options open can set you up for paralysis of failure. It's better to remove options that you know are already potentially distracted or destructive.
Our shoulders grow to Bear the weight on them.
What you focus on expands.
The anticipation of the event is almost always a more emotionally-charged experience than the event itself. I've been saying this for years especially about Christmas.
Let's dive into the notes:
People who know more about their family history have far greater control over their lives. Human organizations of any form whether families or companies fare best when they are connected with the story of origin.
Success isn't that difficult it mainly involves taking 20 steps in a single direction what most people do is take one step in 20 directions.
A crucial component of resetting your life is writing in your journal but before you write in your journal you need to be in the right mindset. You can prepare yourself with his mindset by listening to something inspiring talking to a friend or doing something good for 30 minutes. You want to put yourself in a peak State before you start writing. Working out, praying, or meditating can help your being have an elevated stage prior to a journal writing.
Your level of success can generally be directly measured by your level of investment. If you're not getting the results you want it's because you're not investing enough to get those results.
We are the casualties of rapidly changing environments. We need to create and control our environment.
If you want to be more motivated increase the stakes for both success and failures.
When you change your environment such as surrounding yourself with different people your thoughts and emotions change. These change your values and aspirations which require you to further alter your external environment. Thus it is by tweaking your conditions that you practically shape who you become. You design your worldview by proactively shaping your external inputs. Most people react to their environment thus leading into ineffective behavior and victim-hood. Your external shapes your internal.
When you shape your environment you have greater control over your thoughts and choices.
We over attach ourselves and identify ourselves with the titles we've been given at work but in reality we are just plain the parts of the roles or acting in roles.
You are not an addict, you're perpetually acting out a role life. Your addiction is a reflection of your environments and your relationships you allowed to be built around you.
The recovery process should always be longer than the laborious process. Most environments you must be conscious of what you're doing and that uses will power to act in desired ways. This is because most environments are optimized for distraction rather than high performance or recovery.
Your body can't grow while you're asleep if you haven't pushed it to its limits while you are awake. The same thing works with the mind if you haven't pushed yourself during those Peak moments, you won't be able to get those sudden Revelation type moments.
If you want a different life you must be a different person in the morning. Ritual triggers that Peak state. That state reminds you what you want to be and how you want to act. You then act from that state as that person for the remainder of the day.
In order to change your environment you need to lighten the load to exert enough Force to repel you out of your current bad environment.
Most people indulge themselves in momentary satisfactions at the expense of a better future. Like when you realize you have something to do or something is hard, you might take a break and check email or social media and allow that dopamine to feel good at the moment.
The fear of the choices you have to make, the more powerful your choices will be. I think I transcribed this one wrong. But it's close enough.
Addictions come from having ineffective default behavior set in place.
A core part of addiction is not being able to Bear what is present in your life. What are you doing to have meaningful relationships you desperately seek to fill that void somewhere else.
We eat half as many meals as we did 50 years ago with friends and family, which means we're half as connected with others.
A boost of confidence is far more long-lasting than a shot of dopamine.
Keeping your options open can set you up for paralysis of failure. It's better to remove options that you know are already potentially distracted or destructive.
Our shoulders grow to Bear the weight on them.
What you focus on expands.
The anticipation of the event is almost always a more emotionally-charged experience than the event itself. I've been saying this for years especially about Christmas.