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Scientific Secrets for Self-Control

Series: Scientific Secrets for Self-Control
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Episodes
6
Rating
NR
Year
2013
Language
English
Publisher
The Great Courses

About

Having the mental fortitude to reach your goals seems forever unattainable. But here's the truth: Greater willpower and lasting success are well within your reach. Scientific Secrets for Self-Control is your guide to understanding-and mastering-the general theories behind self-control: what it is, how it works, and how you can take steps to improve it.

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1. Why Is It So Hard to Do What We Should?

31m

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Critical to understanding self-control: understanding why we often fail at it. First, Professor DeWall explains one of the most influential models about how self-control works, and the two classic experiments that tested this model. Then, learn why depleted energy causes us to show poor self-control and how our individual characteristics shape this energy.

2. Self-control Successes and Failures

31m

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What are the secrets behind mastering self-control in your life? Why are specific individuals, from politicians to civil rights leaders, widely considered heroes of self-control? Why does it help to think of self-control as working like an internal thermostat? You'll find answers to these provocative questions and more here.

3. Marshmallows, Monkeys, and Mortality

28m

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In this lecture, go inside the famous "marshmallow experiment" at Stanford University and its revelations about delayed gratification; learn how delaying gratification is important even for primates and dogs; and probe general differences in self-control and its effects on everything from mental health to wealth accumulation to an early death.

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The Great Coursesdirector
The Great Coursesproducer
C. Nathan DeWallactor

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