This book sounds EXACTLY like what I need 🙂 I'm a 4th year PhD student (political science, GWU) and I've been struggling with my dissertation proposal for a year now…well, to be honest, I've been procrastinating for a year now. It’s so nice to start out the year with a really great book. I loved seeing how our brains react to different circumstances (did you know that when healthy items like salads are added to a menu, the sales of unhealthy items increases dramatically?) and learning more about what things we believe about willpower are actually wrong. “This explains, among other things,” she writes, “a large percentage of American Idol auditions.”Īnd even if you’re a completely perfect person, The Willpower Instinct is worth reading because it’s just INTERESTING. I’m excited to go back and apply some of her strategies to my own willpower issues in the year ahead.īetter yet, McGonigal is a really FUNNY writer – for instance, when she’s talking about the Dunning-Kruger effect, she explains that it’s the effect of how people deeply overestimate their abilities and the WORSE they are at something, the better they think they are at it (say, driving or multi-tasking). I really enjoy non-fiction that isn’t just theoretical and this book is full of ways to try out the theories she suggests, whatever you’re struggling with, whether it’s clicking away the evening on the Internet (what, me?) or eating fifty cookies every day. Kelly McGonigal is a professor at Stanford and teaches an immensely popular class (for anyone who wishes to take it, not just Stanford students) called “The Science of Willpower.”Īll of the strategies she talks about in The Willpower Instinct are ones that were tested over many semesters by hundreds and hundreds of participants in her classes, who were working to overcome obstacles from nail-biting to writing novels, and just about every addiction you can imagine.
the willpower instinct by kelly mcgonigal This was a fantastic book (one of those ones I haven’t been able to stop reading aloud to Bart), and it was especially fun to read right as I was making and beginning work on my goals for 2013. The irony of how long I procrastinated picking up The Willpower Instinct was not lost on me.īut once I started it, I was immediately sucked in.
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