Dr Mike Israetel is a Professor of Exercise and Sport Science at Lehman College and the Co-Founder of Renaissance Periodization.
How do you boost motivation and actually follow through on the things you know you should do, but don’t feel like doing? The answer isn’t more stimulants, thankfully, it’s something far more grounded in neuroscience and behaviour. Today, Dr Mike Israetel breaks down the science of willpower in a way that works for the average person and can even help make your daily life much more productive.
Expect to learn the science behind willpower, habits & motivation, the de facto two kinds of things you should be doing with your time, how to know when its time to do things you actually feel like doing versus making yourself do things you don’t feel like doing, how to integrate habits that improve your life and get rid of the ones that don’t serve you, how to improve your willpower, how to become more antifragile and build your resilience, and much more…
Mentioned Books
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins
- Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- Peak Performance by Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness
- Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
- Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
- Start With Why by Simon Sinek
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
- The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
- Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris