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Willpower: Rediscovering Our Greatest Strength
Roy F. Baumeister & John Tierney
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Description for Willpower: Rediscovering Our Greatest Strength
paperback. Reveals the secrets of self-control. This title shows us that willpower is like a muscle that can be strengthened with practice and improved over time. It teaches you how to gain from self-control without pain, and discover the real power in willpower. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JMR; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 171 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 226.
'Immensely rewarding...filled with ingenious research, wise advice and insightful reflections on the human condition' New York Times Book Review
Can you resist everything except temptation? In a hedonistic age full of distractions, it's hard to possess willpower - or in fact even understand why we should need it. Yet it's actually the most important factor in achieving success and a happy life, shown to be more significant than money, looks, background or intelligence. This book reveals the secrets of self-control.
Here, Roy Baumeister, one of the world's most esteemed and influential psychologists, and journalist John Tierney, turn this notion on its head. They show us that willpower is like a muscle that can be strengthened with practice and improved over time. Based on years of psychological research and filled with practical advice, this book will teach you how to gain from self-control without pain, and discover the very real power in willpower. The results are nothing short of life-changing.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141049489
SKU
9780141049489
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About Roy F. Baumeister & John Tierney
Roy F Baumeister is one of the world's most prolific and influential psychologists. He received his PhD from Princeton in 1978 and currently is Francis Eppes Eminent Scholar and head of the psychology program at Florida State University. He has over 450 scientific publications, and this will be his 28th book. John Tierney writes the Findings science column for the New York Times. His science writing has won awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Institute of Physics. He is the author of The Best-Case Scenario Handbook and the co-author, with Christopher Buckley, of the comic novel God Is My Broker. He is a frequent guest on US radio and television.
Reviews for Willpower: Rediscovering Our Greatest Strength
Willpower (the thing) lies at the curious intersection of science and behavior. Willpower (the book) lies at the intersection of Roy Baumeister, an extraordinarily creative scientist, and John Tierney, a phenomenally perceptive journalist. Ignore it at your peril
Stephen J. Dubner, coauthor of 'Freakonomics' and 'SuperFreakonomics' [An] instant classic...[Willpower shows how]...recent research can help people lead better lives - be better parents, stay organized, and lose weight more wisely...[A] brilliant book
Jamie Holmes
Daily Beast
An accessible, empirically grounded guide to willpower and how best to deploy it to overcome temptation...Should one need a more practical sales pitch for the importance of willpower, Messrs. Baumeister and Tierney point to ... its over-riding importance for academic, personal, career and financial success... Willpower offers no shortage of helpful strategies to compensate for weakness of will
Cordelia Fine
Wall Street Journal
Willpower affects almost every aspect of our lives...Tierney and Baumeister have given us a wonderful book in which they not only share fascinating research on the subject but also provide simple tricks to help us tap into this important quality
Dan Ariely, Duke University, author of 'Predictably Irrational' Willpower is sinfully delicious
once you start reading, you won't be able to stop. A fascinating account of the exciting new science of self-control
Daniel Gilbert, Harvard University, author of 'Stumbling On Happiness' As wonderfully entertaining as it is enlightening! Tierney and Baumeister have produced a highly intelligent work full of fascinating information (and great advice) about a core element of modern living. Bravo
David Allen, author of 'Getting Things Done and Making It All Work' This little masterpiece is a must read for all of us who want to exercise, diet, manage our time, be thrifty, and resist temptation
Martin Seligman, University of Pennsylvania, former president of American Psychological Association, author of 'Authentic Happiness and Flourish' This is a manual from heaven for anyone who has ever wanted to lose weight, stop smoking, drink less, work more efficiently and more intelligently. An astonishingly good
and accessible
inquiry into one of the more elusive areas of human psychology
Christopher Buckley, author 'Thank You for Smoking' and 'Losing Mum and Pup' Deep and provocative analysis of people's battle with temptation and masterful insights into understanding willpower: why we have it, why we don't, and how to build it. A terrific read
Ravi Dhar, Yale School of Management, Director of Center for Customer Insights A Guardian 2012 Literary Highlight
Guardian
Stephen J. Dubner, coauthor of 'Freakonomics' and 'SuperFreakonomics' [An] instant classic...[Willpower shows how]...recent research can help people lead better lives - be better parents, stay organized, and lose weight more wisely...[A] brilliant book
Jamie Holmes
Daily Beast
An accessible, empirically grounded guide to willpower and how best to deploy it to overcome temptation...Should one need a more practical sales pitch for the importance of willpower, Messrs. Baumeister and Tierney point to ... its over-riding importance for academic, personal, career and financial success... Willpower offers no shortage of helpful strategies to compensate for weakness of will
Cordelia Fine
Wall Street Journal
Willpower affects almost every aspect of our lives...Tierney and Baumeister have given us a wonderful book in which they not only share fascinating research on the subject but also provide simple tricks to help us tap into this important quality
Dan Ariely, Duke University, author of 'Predictably Irrational' Willpower is sinfully delicious
once you start reading, you won't be able to stop. A fascinating account of the exciting new science of self-control
Daniel Gilbert, Harvard University, author of 'Stumbling On Happiness' As wonderfully entertaining as it is enlightening! Tierney and Baumeister have produced a highly intelligent work full of fascinating information (and great advice) about a core element of modern living. Bravo
David Allen, author of 'Getting Things Done and Making It All Work' This little masterpiece is a must read for all of us who want to exercise, diet, manage our time, be thrifty, and resist temptation
Martin Seligman, University of Pennsylvania, former president of American Psychological Association, author of 'Authentic Happiness and Flourish' This is a manual from heaven for anyone who has ever wanted to lose weight, stop smoking, drink less, work more efficiently and more intelligently. An astonishingly good
and accessible
inquiry into one of the more elusive areas of human psychology
Christopher Buckley, author 'Thank You for Smoking' and 'Losing Mum and Pup' Deep and provocative analysis of people's battle with temptation and masterful insights into understanding willpower: why we have it, why we don't, and how to build it. A terrific read
Ravi Dhar, Yale School of Management, Director of Center for Customer Insights A Guardian 2012 Literary Highlight
Guardian