How & Why To Stop Relying On Your Limited Willpower w/ Ben Hardy

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Kevin Miller

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🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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As a culture, especially amongst aspiring people, we look at willpower like it’s a tool. Like a hammer. It’s late in the evening, you have a hankering for a snack, so just go get your hammer. Willpower. And smack that desire down. But how often can we not seem to find the hammer when we need it most? There is a reason. Your willpower is not a hammer. It’s more like your phone and all day the battery is draining. So often when you go to use it, you’ve fully depleted it. So what do you do? That’s why I’m bringing back one of the shows I refer to so, so often. Ben Hardy wrote his first book, Why Willpower Doesn’t Work, and it became a classic. I’ve had him on my show 4 or 5 times and he’s the lead story in my book, What Drives You. Ben has a PhD in organizational psychology and has written many bestselling books at this point. I’m a fan, as I feel he gets to root issues of problems we all experience. The following conversation will forever change how you view your willpower, and it will equip you to better save your willpower, and construct your environment so you don’t even have to rely on it. Find Ben anywhere at BenjaminHardy. Sign up for your $1/month trial period at shopify.com/kevin Go to shipstation.com and use code KEVIN to start your free trial. Use my promo code WHATDRIVESYOU for 10% off on any CleanMyMac's subscription plans Join millions of Americans reaching their financial goals—starting at just $3/month! Get $25 towards your first stock purchase at get.stash.com/DRIVE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome. I'm Kevin Miller. In this episode, how and why to stop relying on your limited willpower.
0:10.6	So in this culture, especially amongst aspiring people, we look at willpower, kind of like it's a tool, like it's a hammer.
0:18.7	It's late in the evening. You've got a hankering for a snack so you just
0:22.4	go get your hammer right willpower and smack the desire down but how often can we not seem to find
0:30.2	the hammer when we need it most well there's a reason your willpower is not a hammer it's more like
0:36.5	your phone.
0:40.0	And all day long, the battery is draining.
0:45.3	So often when you go to use it, you've found it fully depleted at this point.
0:46.9	So what do you do?
0:53.3	Well, that's why I'm bringing back one of the shows I refer to so, so often.
0:58.1	So Ben Hardy, he wrote his first book called Why Willpower Doesn't Work, and it became a classic. It is a classic for me. I've had Ben on the show
1:04.2	four or five times since then, and he's actually the lead story, Chapter 1 in my book, What Drives
1:10.5	You?
1:14.4	Ben's got a PhD in organizational psychology.
1:17.6	He's written at this point so many bestselling books.
1:18.8	I'm a fan.
1:24.5	I feel he gets to the root issues of problems that we all experience and helps us overcome those problems.
1:25.2	So the following conversation, again, I sat down with Ben on this a few years ago,
1:30.6	and it forever changed my view on willpower.
1:33.6	It'll equip you to better save your willpower,
1:36.9	but really even more how to construct your environment so you don't even have to rely on willpower.
1:43.7	You can find Ben and all that he's doing at Benjamin Hardy.
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