Strength of will. How to develop and strengthen. Neon Pocketbooks. K. McGonigal

The willpower is taught in Stanford! This course is insanely popular among students - everyone wants to strengthen the willpower. But so far there was no teacher who would undertake to make a scientifically founded course on this topic, shove on other people's research and conduct their own. All in order to prove that we train this skill and teach everyone to develop its development.

This teacher was a psychologist, Doctor of Sciences Kelly McGonigal - who later wrote the book The Willpower Instinct, which we published under the name “Power of Volya ". It was she who brought the idea of ​​a course in training the willpower to the campus of business school No. 1 in the world, has developed it and leads to this day, getting gratitude to students and many teaching awards.

If we were asked what the only book From the portfolio of our publishing house, we would advise everyone without exception - it would be “willpower”.

It turned out that willpower can be trained as muscles. The more often you train, the easier it is to use.

The position “I work on the task for 10 minutes, and then I can quit”, oddly enough, greatly increases the chances of bringing the case to the end.

Dream And the rest in the most direct way strengthen the willpower, and stress reduces. The fact is that the tense organism by all means tries to direct us to pleasure, even doubtful in terms of long -term goals.