This comes from an article of the same name from performance coach and best-selling author Brad Stulberg and is obviously about willpower, or our lack thereof these days!
Here the notes I took down from it:
- Like everything else, if you rely/use willpower too much then it fatigues and gives out - then what are you left with?
- Constantly resisting checking your phone leads to lower physical and psychological performance
- Meditation and exercise can help improve it, as exercise requires willpower by it's very nature, but they are rarely enough
- You need to eliminate the need for willpower altogether
- Even when you have your phone facedown on the table and on silent during a face-to-face conversation, merely having the phone present detracts from the quality of the conversation because you're using up so much energy from resisting the urge to check for updates, energy that could be going into the conversation
- Design your environments to remove any temptations such as keeping bad food out of the house, keeping your phone in the car etc.
Check out the article as it provides a lot more temptation removals strategies than I've listed here.
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