How to Increase Your Willpower & Tenacity

October 9, 2023 2h 6m 16 chapters

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Chapters (16)

0:00 Tenacity & Willpower 3:49 Tenacity & Willpower vs. Habit Execution; Apathy, Depression & Motivation 10:40 Ego Depletion & Willpower as a Limited Resource; Controversy 19:14 Tool: Autonomic Function, Tenacity & Willpower; Sleep & Stress 28:59 Willpower as a Limited Resource (Theory) 35:36 Willpower & Glucose, Brain Energetics 42:44 Beliefs about Willpower & Glucose; Multiple Challenges 54:01 Willpower Brain ‘Hub’; Anorexia Nervosa, Super-Agers 1:07:15 Anterior Midcingulate Cortex & Brain/Body Communication 1:15:09 Allostasis, Anterior Midcingulate Cortex Function 1:25:19 Anterior Mid-Cingulate Cortex (aMCC), Difficult Tasks & Neuroplasticity 1:29:30 Tool: Novel Physical Exercise & Brain; Cognitive Exercise 1:43:44 Tool: “Micro-sucks”, Increase Tenacity/Willpower 1:50:58 Impossible Tasks, Super-Agers & Learning, Will to Live 1:57:23 Tool: Rewards & Improving Tenacity/Willpower

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