American adults have cited lack of willpower as the top barrier to changing behavior. Around the world, when adults have rated themselves on two dozen positive qualities, self-control has ranked dead last. Research also shows that exercising willpower feels pretty awful, whether you are resisting something fun or forcing yourself to do something un-fun. (View Highlight)
Sobre la brecha de percepción de nuestra fuerza de voluntad y lo que es válido esperar de ella.
Willpower is overrated. (View Highlight)
Research shows that achievement has surprisingly little to do with forcing yourself to choose wisely in the heat of the moment. Successful people rarely rely on inner fortitude to resist temptations. Instead, many exercise situational agency, arranging their lives to minimize the need for willpower in the first place. (View Highlight)
It can feel embarrassing or even shameful to admit you lack the fortitude to make farsighted choices when temptation beckons. But interviews with some of the most disciplined people on the planet have taught me that you do hard things more consistently when you put yourself in situations that make the pursuit easier. (View Highlight)
People are more likely to exercise when the situation makes exercise more fun, research shows. (View Highlight)
My colleagues and I asked thousands of teenagers where they put their phones when studying. The options ranged from keeping their phones next to them, with the screen up and sound on, to moving phones to another room. At the end of the school year, the students who kept their phones farther away had earned higher report card grades. (View Highlight)
Hay varios estudios experimentales que demuestra esto.