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Willpower
- Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
- Narrated by: Denis O'Hare
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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Publisher's Summary
One of the world's most esteemed and influential psychologists, Roy F. Baumeister, teams with New York Times science writer John Tierney to reveal the secrets of self-control and how to master it.
Pioneering research psychologist Roy F. Baumeister collaborates with New York Times science writer John Tierney to revolutionize our understanding of the most coveted human virtue: self-control. Drawing on cutting-edge research and the wisdom of real-life experts, Willpower shares lessons on how to focus our strength, resist temptation, and redirect our lives. It shows listeners how to be realistic when setting goals, monitor their progress, and how to keep faith when they falter. By blending practical wisdom with the best of recent research science, Willpower makes it clear that whatever we seek - from happiness to good health to financial security - we won’t reach our goals without first learning to harness self-control.
Critic Reviews
"The psychologist Roy F. Baumeister has shown that the force metaphor has a kernel of neurobiological reality. In Willpower, he has teamed up with the irreverent New York Times science columnist John Tierney to explain this ingenious research and show how it can enhance our lives.... Willpower is an immensely rewarding book, filled with ingenious research, wise advice and insightful reflections on the human condition." (Steven Pinker, The New York Times Book Review)
"An accessible, empirically grounded guide to willpower and how best to deploy it to overcome temptation." (The Wall Street Journal)
"Willpower is sure to inspire further groundbreaking research into the mechanics of willpower. One implication is already apparent. Since repeated behaviors eventually turn into habits, improving willpower long term requires a unique strategy - a habit of changing habits, of continually expanding our zones of comfort. One such practice, it seems, is the 'routine' of learning. That's a habit that this brilliant book will certainly nourish." (The Daily Beast)
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- Amazon Customer
- 27-07-20
willpower : understood.
you will definitely be improved in knowledge regarding willpower. the only thing this book lacks is clear instructions or plans to improve the willpower. so it kind of feels incomplete. this is a theory book not a practical one. must read for everyone who suffers from procrastination and other bad habits.
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- Rahul Sharma
- 10-02-22
Amazing book
Aazing book to read ... Eye opener... Great examples to relate to... Thanks Roy and John
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- naveen vakada
- 27-06-21
Experimentally proven facts and suggestions
hundreds of helpful experimental results in the book gives you scientific view of how to achieve success rather than simply stating facts. Easy to follow and hard to ignore thoughts. Every second of this audiobook is worthy to be listened.
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- Buyer Frequente
- 21-02-21
This can be a life changing book
I've come across many of the studies mentioned in this book. But this is the first time I've learned about will power studies in the right context and background.
The book is an eye opener and can help people improve their lives.
The narrator is a delight. He so easily creates differences when different people speak or when he's narrating for someone else. No confusion whatsoever. Beautifully narrated work.
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- Sulabh Kaushik
- 04-02-21
A great boor by great author and narration.
This a a perfect solution to make tiny changes in your lifestyle and achive great success.
Willpower is a Muscle that can be strengthen.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-01-21
Good Read
Lot of eye-opening concepts about how will power governs so many things in your life. This is the kind of book I'd be re-reading every now and then just to refresh my memory about the concepts
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- Omkar Thakur
- 19-12-20
Clean | Informative | inspiring
It takes a while for the book to make a impression on you.
However, at the end it does leave a impactful change.
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- anwar ehsanullah
- 17-12-20
A peep into Will Power
The book helps understand the power of will power. The book gives references of number of studies made on will power. It helps understand the concept of will power. The book shares practical tips on overcoming temptations. The book also shares practical tips on how to develop and use will power. I enjoyed reading the book. I would recommend others to read or listen.
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- Faisal aamair
- 16-05-20
Great book
I really like the book author has given many ground breaking rules great book for some one who want to improve his her life
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- amogha
- 29-04-20
One time read
The author is brilliant no doubt but he is all over the place with ideas.
Keep a book and pen ready for making points because some of them are good.
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- Adele
- 02-03-20
excellent documentation
wish the authors had more faith in religion, but the empirical results of their studies are undeniable. love the approach and helps so much to know the background.
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- Anonymous User
- 22-05-20
Fantastic Content Applicable to Everyone
This book itself is not exciting; however, the positive effect that this information can have on your life is cause for excitement. Baumeister explains how every day we have a limited amount of willpower and gives us tips and tricks to make the most of it, along with how to strengthen willpower over time. This book has helped and will continue to help me make the most of my willpower as I implement recommended practices into my life.
7 people found this helpful
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- Zev Kaplan
- 23-02-21
Awesome
This book sets the gold standard for books on improving one’s life and is highly recommended by someone who very rarely writes reviews
5 people found this helpful
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- Thorbjørn Jensen
- 21-02-21
Really solid and enlightening book
It has changed the way I percieve will power, and modern life. Instead of seeing will power (and the lack of it) as a question of guilt and character defects, it shows a nuanced picture with lots of surprising facts
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-07-22
I never give books 5 stars because no book is ...
but this one is close😁
The final chapter really pulled it all together. That said, exert the self control to defer it until you listen to It in it's entirety or you'll rob yourself of that which made it so rewarding for me.
tim #bgreen
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- CN
- 17-10-21
A lot of rambling fluff with some very usable tips.
To not be hypocritical, I will not ramble on here in this review but you can basically read the last chapter and get everything you need from the book and save yourself a lot of time. If you want to save time and money just do some basic Google searches and find tips online. This book doesn’t really help a whole lot but it’s not completely bad as there are some useful tips but it does feel like it never reaches any concrete solutions.
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- Jean Turgeon
- 22-05-21
Good Advise (sometimes) but Bad Research and Psych
Tl;Dr: Don't pick up the latest fad diet but rather just maintain a good healthy rate of eating is generally good advice. But don't buy the pop psychology of this book and the phenomenon of "Good People doing Bad Things" can't be all explained by "they got a little stressed out"
Overall I thought the advice was sound enough with that often starvation diets don't work in terms of that it depletes willpower in every other field like being a good parent or doing well in the office and that they often encourage those who partake in them to flip to even more heavy overeating when the diet is done due to the brain sending hormones across the body to bulk up. Since the brain is used to food being rare instead of the first world where food is available in large amounts even to the poorest of society. So generally to lose weight one should slowly edge of heavy eating rather than diving head first into a starvation diet.
But generally what I found troubling and something not talked about in many of the reviews is that the experiments are poorly done and the author's attempt to answer the age old question, why do good people do bad things. Almost all the experiments done in the book are done with college students, which have a series of compounding variables, like usually growing up in relative comfort and generally being harder workers and etc, which is never acknowledged in the entirety of the book. Also that the experiments often have their variables determined by many outside confounding variables like with the cookie and radish experiment.
The book outlines people who didn't eat for a full 24 hours and one group was told to eat radishes and the other group told to eat cookies. Then the cookie and radish groups were told to do a puzzle and timed to see how long they work on the puzzle. The radish people on average gave up sooner than the cookie people therefore starting the author's rise to one of the most prestigious physiologists of all time and eventually to write this book.
The major problem with all this is that it is never asked did the radish people give up sooner because they were more frustrated with the experiment than the cookie people or did the cookie people work for longer since they thought they owed some kind of debt to the author which the radish people didn't think that was the case and I bet you can continue for a good hour punching holes in this experiment if you sat down for a good hour just think about it.
Then the author tries to explain the "Heart of Darkness" style moral downfall of a group of British soldiers told to maintain an outpost in the Congolese jungles in the 1800s. The author never acknowledged the frankly very racist and dehumanizing beliefs that the soldiers would have about the natives instead attributing their evilness to being stressed out. And the debunking point to that whole section is that these soldier only did these evil actions to local natives and never to each other which can be waved away with being stressed out.
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- Perseph
- 14-08-22
Not worth your time
Don’t waste your time with this book.
Summary: Focus on one goal at a time.
The end.
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- Leonid066
- 19-10-21
A Good read, scientific approach
The book is amazing for it's scientific approach to the problem. So definitely worth reading.
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- D. Manuel
- 04-02-23
Job well done
This book is phenomenal. It will challenge your way of thinking. Promotes healthy pragmatism. Bravo.