Self-Control is the Key to Success: John Tierney and Roy Baumeister on Willpower
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- "There are two qualities that correlate with success," says New York Times journalist John Tierney. "One of them is intelligence and the other is self-control. And so far researchers haven't figured out what to do about intelligence, but they have rediscovered how to improve self-control."
Tierney spoke at an event sponsored by the Reason Foundation on January 28, 2014 at New York City's Museum of Sex. He was joined by Roy Baumeister, the Francis Epps Eminent Scholar in psychology at Florida State University, and the co-author with Tierney of Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength.Willpower by John Tierney and Roy Baumeister |||
Baumeister and Tierney discussed the importance of willpower in determing our success in life and offered tips for improving our self-control. The conversation touched on laboratory experiments that show how willpower can be depleted (6:20); the effect of glucose levels on self-control (10:15); how to make good on your New Year's resolutions (16:30); why dieting undermines self-control (20:45); how to make an effective to do list (22:30); Tierney and Baumeister's experience meeting David Allen, author of Getting Things Done (24:30); why it's a good idea to weigh yourself every day if you're trying to shed pounds (25:30); the role of genetics in determining a person's willpower (31:00); why self-help literature rarely emphasizes willpower (33:00); the victim mentality and Alcoholics Anonymous (35:20); willpower and crime (38:50); procrastination as a tool for getting things done (47:20); and willpower and evolution (51:45)
About 1 hour and 2 minutes.
Shot and edited by Jim Epstein.
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Its great to see scientists taking over the motivational types !
Oh please! Just because someone is a 'scientist' doesn't mean diddly squat. 1+1 = 2, this is a fact, it can be proven. The earth is round, this is a fact, it can be proven. Human psychology is another story. Motivation is the root of all success. Without it, willpower is squat. Try getting an erection by sheer willpower alone, good luck! But add a little motivation & voilá! Motivational speakers ('types') do just that, they motivate. Are they 100% successful? Heck no. But if they can make a decent living at it, then obviously they've affected enough change to be able to do so.
Please read the book
Motivation is a must
***** Absolutey . The motivational types are dinos in an age where scientists communicate so well
***** Good argument and I agree partially. But here are a few people who at one time may have been addicted to Tony Robbins--> Bill Clinton, Hugh Jackman, Serena Williams,@1433037 Leonardo DiCaprio, Nelson Mandela...to name a few, listed on Ranker.com. And here a few companies who also may have been addicted to a motivational speaker Brian Tracy--> Abbott Labs, ADT Security, Alliance Title Co., Assante Wealth Management, Autodesk, Banc One Credit, Bank of America, Century 21, Chevron...well over a hundred companies.
But let's meet in the middle, motivation is the spark to the fire, self-will (self discipline in my mind) is/are the logs that keep it going. However, I still maintain that will power alone is not enough. Motivation is the impetus of will power. You gotta have a desire (motivation) to accomplish anything in life, will power alone won't cut it, unless you have a taskmaster over making you do something you don't want to do.
The part about parole judges at like 10:58 is both enlightening and frightening. "Justice is what the judge had for breakfast." :)
Not the usual from reason tv, but extremely fascinating. Great presentation
GREAT POST...thanks ***** TV, and great question around 33:00: "willpower," in popular culture, has become an antiquated notion because it denotes RESPONSIBILITY (it's antithetical to the victimized, entitlement-mentality that governs almost all academic, intellectual and political discussions today) *****
I thought the thumbnail was before and after haha
Jonathan Castro You aren't the only one! Lol
I'm eating ice cream and cookies while watching this
Love Roy
Excuse me! Which way to John Tierney's head?
Love it
Having a rich family that sends you to Yale also helps
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This is why Batman is the best.
Indomitable will
Genius level intellect
Excellent Video! Probably as objective as two over-privileged, middle-aged white men could make it! TNX!
Racist, sexist, classist, and ageist all in the same comment.
Peter Hoffman Enjoy It! Get used to It! All -ists will increase as War approaches! TNX!
Peter Hoffman I am adding classless as well.
I think eating can help your self control when dieting and exercising to lose weight, so long as you're eating right. I wonder if athletes have a higher degree of self control because they have much more energy.
Trump would be in Stockholm ( for the Nobel peace prize) prolific in June 2018.
really Obama as a example ? haha. Self Control and spending? - lost me with Obama being your poster boy, even in Jest. So I will use my will power to take the sensible points from your talk and exempt the horrible POTUS examples.
No you misunderstood. Remember will power gets depleted when you use it, so it's clear that POTUS isn't using up any of his will power to curb his spending of our money because he is saving it to control the spending of his own money.
Aah, don't necessarily agree with all of it. Making decisions causes stress, that's what saps your energy. Anyone ever heard of serotonin? And will power without motivation is like an olympian running a race by himself and without a crowd to watch. So, motivation is more of key to success than will power alone. Also, when you fast you actually become stronger at resisting temptation than when your gut is full. Of course exercising helps in decision making, duh. It conteracts stress. If will power is the key then why do I know Napolean Hill, Brian Tracy, Tony Robbins (rich dudes) and have never heard of these chumps?
Well, making decisions won't cause me stress, I think you have a problem over there. No I disagree, motivation is like an emotional boost, the moment you have that boost you use less willpower because you're using dopamine, that's why we don't use willpower to do the things we like. Because you don't have to hear of it in order to do it, I know many people with good willpower that do most of these things mentioned above and they've never heard of "these chumps". Haven't you ever done something and then found out that what's you're doing is actually beneficial ? it feels like a bonus, not this one, my willpower is low to below-average but there were talks about Awareness and Religion (that's not about who's right but rather how to deal with the differences in religion in a humanitarian and effective way) and I was already aware of those things, my views and actions were the same as they said in those talks they should be. So if that's possible for me, why should that be impossible for rich and very personally developed people like Tony Robbins and the ones you listed above ?
***** Deciding whether or not you want tea or coffee won't cause you stress, but deciding whether or not someone gets parole or not will cause stress. Especially if you have to make a lot of decisions throughout the day or week. Stress from making important decisions fatigues both the body and mind. Concerning motivation, my dad smoked for thirty years. At 55 doctors told him if he didn't quit he was going to die. Guess what. He quit. No patches, no hypnosis, no 10 step program. Motivation & will power. But the motivation came first.
123tominator007 Indeed, but I think the thing that causes you stress are the possible consequences of you decision, not the decision itself, which is worry about the future and has rather something with fear than willpower. Again, the reason your father quit smoking was fear, not motivation or willpower. Yes, you could say that he was motivated by fear of death but usually motivation is an inner desire to do something in order to gain something.
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You're getting closer. "Indeed, but I think the thing that causes you stress are the possible consequences of your decision, not the decision itself". You're exactly right, but thinking things thru is part of the decision-making process. Again, making small decisions are of no consequence, but making important decisions, especially those that effect other people, will definitely cause stress -- unless you're a robot. It's a part of being human. Also, I don't believe you quite understand the definition of motivation. Look it up. Fear can definitely be a motivating factor. My father's fear of an early death and a will to live was his motivation, but he quit entirely by himself without the help of others. All I'm saying is that motivation is the driving force of will power. These dudes are just trying to make something that's plain and simple into something that sounds scientific, big and grand, hyping it up. I'm not impressed. Take care.
123tominator007 Motivation: a reason or reasons for acting or behaving in a particular way. I agree that your father's cause of quitting smoking was motivation, but being motivated by fear of death. Both fear and motivation come from the same place, but different chemicals are used and fear is a more natural thing than motivation, while motivation is voluntary, fear is involuntary, that's why I think fear and motivation should be kept as different notions. When we think about it we could say "well, yes, he had the fear of death but it was motivation to quit smoking not fear because his fear was more distant in the future so and couldn't have any impact on it", but the fear doesn't have to happen in the present moment, it is only necessary a thought about the fear to feel fear, this thought about the fear is called worrying I think, fear about the future, when you put yourself in his place "I'm gonna die brings fear into the present" so you could say that he was driven by fear, does that makes any sense ? And being motivated to gain something I think we should split the term motivation in motivation not to get down (not to lose something) and motivation to get up (to gain something). Because I suspect they have different properties, the motivation not to get down which is a more powerful motivator than the motivation to go up, but this is just a thought. Well, I think motivation is the thing that drives you to do self-control, and he just expanded the idea of self-control. Because self-control is doing things you don't wanna do, and motivation is the reason of doing that thing you don't wanna do. I think motivation + self-control should equal willpower although this is also just a thought, because motivation is like the starting place, the drive to do the thing you don't want to do, and self-control is like the endurance of doing the thing you don't wanna do, and practicing self-control makes you feel more confortable doing the things you don't wanna do, increases your endurance, which makes less motivation requied to cross that barrier of "this is too hard".
I would take Brian Tracy, Napoleon Hill, Les Brown, Jim Rohn, Jack Canfield or any of the other self made millionaires over these clowns. They simply do not grasp the basics that they slam.
those I mentioned took the principles of Dale Carnegie and Henry Ford much more that you think
we can agree to disagree.. I know from my track record what works..
pauljcjr Money means nothing. The only question is how effective they are (in other words what % of people who use techniques become better) That question is the domain of science and those "clowns", as you called them, try to answer those questions. Without those "clowns", there is no objective way to tell what is bullshit and what works. Surely you can try to experiment on yourself and have your own track record, but there is no way to distinguish what is placebo and what is not. In other words, it's all purely subjective. For some reason, when there are studies on how certain chemicals and food effect your body, you most likely consider them beneficial, but when people explore self-development from the scientific point of view, you call them clowns (perhaps it's not pleasant to let go of some of your dogmas).
Money means nothing ? It is the result of actions. Enjoy the day
pauljcjr
Money means nothing when it comes to proving whether something works or not. Furthermore, if you can make money yourself or if you have willpower yourself, it not mean that you can effectively teach other people how to achieve the same thing as you did. I'm good at memorizing things. It does not mean that what I say about how you can better memorize things is actually scientifically valid.
As for the result of actions, your actions can only be quantified with money if financially success is your only goal.If this is true, then perhaps you can say that N amount of money you earned this month reflects the amount of willpower you had this month or how effective you were. Otherwise it measures nothing.