Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success - Softcover

Hardy, Benjamin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349417946 ISBN 13: 9780349417943

Publisher: Piatkus, 2019

Synopsis

'Benjamin Hardy is one of the leading voices on well-being and productivity. Willpower Doesn't Work is an insightful guide to help us thrive in today's world' Arianna Huffington

If you're relying on willpower alone to help you lose weight, improve your relationships or achieve more at work, you're doomed to fail. The environment around us is far too powerful, stimulating, addicting and stressful to overcome it through sheer determination. Willpower, grit, being positive - basically, all the tools you've been told are the keys to creating lasting change in your life - are insufficient in this high-paced, information-overloaded world we live in. The only way to stop just surviving and learn to truly thrive in today's world is to proactively shape your environment.

That's the premise of Willpower Doesn't Work, by organisational psychologist and Medium's most-read self-help guru Benjamin Hardy. Building on copious existing research, as well as his own experience of growing up in a broken family afflicted by addiction and drug use, Hardy explains how people can change their lives on every level by making small, impactful changes in their environment like:

* Creating 'enriched environments' - using tougher challenges and self-imposed deadlines to force yourself to rise to the occasion.

* Growing into your goals - using radical personal accountability to keep yourself on target and on track.

* Becoming the teacher - stepping into a leadership role (even before you think you're ready) to accelerate your skills.

* Rotating your environments - getting out of your rut by literally changing your physical surroundings throughout the day or week.

From simple steps like removing things that conflict with your values from your environment (like junk food, junk media, even junk people), to incorporating new tools (like fasting or adding 'positive triggers' to your world), these lessons make it possible to consciously shape your surroundings so you can lead a more productive and happier life. Hardy leans on his own story of making the decision to foster three young children to illustrate how any shift, no matter how huge, can become 'the new normal' if you support that change with a productive environment.

About this title

About the Author

Benjamin Hardy is the writer of Slipstream Time Hacking, a self-help phenomenon that has been downloaded more than 200,000 times. In 2016, Hardy was the #1 writer on Medium.com.

His writing is informed by his personal experiences - from a troubled upbringing in a broken, drug-afflicted family, to the three children he has fostered with wife Lauren - and passionate interest in self-help and psychology. Hardy is currently studying towards a PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

From the Back Cover

'If you want to get more done, don't worry about willpower - focus on motivation. Challenging the dominant view of self-control as a muscle. Benjamin Hardy reveals that productivity is really about clarity and commitment' Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take

Most of us rely on willpower to lose weight, improve our relationships, achieve more at work . . . but what if we're thinking about it all wrong?

In a world that is fast-paced, confusing and full of distractions, it's easy to lose focus on what you want to achieve, and your willpower won't last long if your environment is in conflict with your goals - eventually, the environment will win out. Instead of 'white-knuckling' your way to change, you need to instead alter your surroundings to support your goals. This book shows you how.

Willpower Doesn't Work will specifically teach you:
*How to make the biggest decisions of your life - and why those decisions must be made in specific settings
*How to create a daily 'sacred' environment to live your life with intention, and not get sucked into the cultural addictions
*How to quickly put yourself in proximity to the most successful people in the world--and how to adapt their knowledge and skills to yourself even quicker
*How to create an environment where endless creativity and boundless productivity is the norm

Benjamin Hardy will show you that nurture is far more powerful than your nature, and teach you how to create and control your environment so your environment will not create and control you.

Edition details

• Publisher: Piatkus
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0349417946
• ISBN 13: 9780349417943
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256