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The Science of Self-Control and Weight Loss

2017

Sylvia Tara on how sustained weight loss and self-control are linked.

05:52 min

How to Strengthen Your Willpower

Willpower is sorely tested at Easter, when temptation comes in abundance and is often coated in chocolate. But a new book suggests that people who exercise greater self-control are those who have greater success in life.

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Stephanie Hegarty
2012
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The Psychology of Willpower: Training the Brain for Better Decisions

In 2011, 27% of the respondents of the Stress in America survey reported a lack of willpower as the greatest obstacle to change.

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Catarina Lino
2020
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Seven Tips to Increase Your Willpower

It’s the self-control to say “no” to too much eating, spending, video gaming, alcohol consumption and other indulgences that keep us from goals we’ve set. It’s something we all wish we had more of: willpower.

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Premier Health staff
2019
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How to Boost Your Willpower

A growing body of evidence indicates that willpower and self-control are essential for a happy and successful life.

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Denise Cummins
2013
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How to Increase Willpower and Be Mentally Tough

Learning how to increase willpower requires time.

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Ryan Clements
2020
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The Discourses of Epictetus: The Handbook, Fragments

The stress on endurance, self-restraint, and power of the will to withstand calamity can often seem coldhearted. It is Epictetus, a lame former slave exiled by Emperor Domitian, who offers by far the most precise and humane version of Stoic ideals.

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Epictetus
1995
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