如果你認為IQ、EQ很重要,現在,你該把眼光轉向WQ!
Willpower=意志力,才是決勝的關鍵!
提升心理素質,強化你每天都用得上的意志力!
史丹佛大學的「意志力科學」課程,是該校最受歡迎的課程之一。2008年第一次開課時,為了容納不斷加選的學生,換了四次教室。有學生每星期從舊金山租車趕來上課。有學生上過課之後,戒掉了30年的甜食癮、不再對小孩子發脾氣、開始規律運動。超過八成的學生認為,這門課強化了他們的意志力,改變了他們的人生!
意志力不是一種美德,而是心理能力與生理能力的結合。更棒的是,意志力像肌肉一樣可以鍛鍊!但不必懸梁刺骨,也不必臥薪嚐膽,只要掌握意志力的本質,就可以在該去做的時候積極行動,該拒絕的時候堅定說不。它,比IQ、EQ,對你的人生影響更大!
正如EQ可以改善,意志力也可靠許多方法增強!
Based on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal's wildly popular course "The Science of Willpower," The Willpower Instinct is the first book to explain the new science of self-control and how it can be harnessed to improve our health, happiness, and productivity.
Informed by the latest research and combining cutting-edge insights from psychology, economics, neuroscience, and medicine, The Willpower Instinct explains exactly what willpower is, how it works, and why it matters. For example, readers will learn:
Willpower is a mind-body response, not a virtue. It is a biological function that can be improved through mindfulness, exercise, nutrition, and sleep.
Willpower is not an unlimited resource. Too much self-control can actually be bad for your health.
Temptation and stress hijack the brain's systems of self-control, but the brain can be trained for greater willpower
Guilt and shame over your setbacks lead to giving in again, but self-forgiveness and self-compassion boost self-control.
Giving up control is sometimes the only way to gain self-control.
Willpower failures are contagious--you can catch the desire to overspend or overeat from your friends--but you can also catch self-control from the right role models.
In the groundbreaking tradition of Getting Things Done, The Willpower Instinct combines life-changing prescriptive advice and complementary exercises to help readers with goals ranging from losing weight to more patient parenting, less procrastination, better health, and greater productivity at work.
★本書中譯版《輕鬆駕馭意志力:史丹佛大學最受歡迎的心理素質課》由先覺出版。