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Do you want to know how to apply self-control and discipline to your life?

Do you have questions like these about willpower?

• How do commitment and progress affect my willpower?
• Is there such a thing as too much willpower?
• How do pride, shame, and guilt affect my willpower?
• What are some simple things that I can do to protect my willpower?
• Which runs out first, muscle energy or willpower?

Willpower answers these questions — and many more — by covering:

• Thirteen ways that your thoughts and feelings affect your willpower
• Three impacts of your physiology on your willpower
• Ten willpower recommendations about your diet
• Twelve research-driven approaches to maximizing your willpower to work out
• Six connections between everyday activities and your willpower
• Four willpower implications for goal-support groups
• Six effects of authority figures and strangers on your willpower
• Eight opportunities to leverage willpower research for your future

Each chapter of Willpower begins by challenging you with a question. The chapter then gives you the correct answer, the research behind it, and a practical technique that you can apply right away.

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