Willpower Doesn't Work by Benjamin Hardy

Author:Benjamin Hardy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Create Triggers to Prevent Self-Sabotage

Putting Failure-Planning to Work

An essential component of having enriched environments optimized for rest is outsourcing the need for willpower. However, you cannot control every environment. Sometimes, you’ll be in situations where you’ll be triggered to act against your desires and goals. Rather than relying on willpower, you’ll need to create an automated response for how to deal with challenges. In other words, you’ll need to create a trigger for the trigger. Once you get triggered to self-sabotage, that very trigger triggers you to do something more positive.

Sound complex? It’s not. This is called implementation intentions, and it’s a well-researched idea in organizational and motivation psychology. Once you’ve outsourced your proactive response to self-destruction to your environment, your level of rest and recovery deepens, because your level of internal consistency increases. At the most fundamental level, rest is about alignment and being in a state of peace and confidence. You can’t have confidence if you continually act in ways contrary to your goals.

Here’s how it works.

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