Moment 126: How To Master The Consistency Of Achieving Your Goals & Sticking To Them: Nir Eyal

Uh Before we started recording, I said to you, I looked up all these time management techniques and I've looked at these diet fads and there's so many of them because it appears that they none of them really work without this underlying thing called discipline. So you can have all the you know, I can time box and I can the one, two, three, four technique and the A B C five technique, whatever. But if I don't have the underlying discipline, then I'm not going to do any of these things. Um

Discipline is such a Interesting word is It's it it pr it kinda catches a lot of different things. A lot of psychological forces you've described. So And then this other theory of willpower that's

sort of trundled on through the ages that we have a limited amount of willpower and if we try and do too many things at once. Then we'll do none of them and only take on one bad habit at once. Is there any truth to all of that stuff? No. No. No. Wellpower is not a limited resource. Uh, at least from the latest research, you know, science isn't is never conclusive, but from what we know today, it seems so a few years ago there was this concept called ego depletion. Ego depletion is exactly what you mentioned. It's that uh we run out of willpower like someone would

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