Try free for 30 days
-
Willpower Doesn't Work
- Discover the Hidden Keys to Success
- Narrated by: Benjamin Hardy
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from Wish List failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Willpower Doesn't Work
Buy Now for $21.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Publisher's Summary
If you're relying on willpower alone to help you lose weight, improve your relationships or achieve more at work, you're doomed to fail. The environment around us is far too powerful, stimulating, addicting and stressful to overcome it through sheer determination. Willpower, grit, being positive - basically, all the tools you've been told are the keys to creating lasting change in your life - are insufficient in this high-paced, information-overloaded world we live in. The only way to stop just surviving and learn to truly thrive in today's world is to proactively shape your environment.
That's the premise of Willpower Doesn't Work, by organizational psychologist and Medium's most-read self-help guru Benjamin Hardy. Building on copious existing research as well as his own experience of growing up in a broken family afflicted by addiction and drug use, Hardy explains how people can change their lives on every level by making small, impactful changes in their environments like:
- Creating "enriched environments" - using tougher challenges and self-imposed deadlines to force yourself to rise to the occasion
- Growing into your goals - using radical personal accountability to keep yourself on target and on track
- Becoming the teacher - stepping into a leadership role (even before you think you're ready) to accelerate your skills
- Rotating your environments - getting out of your rut by literally changing your physical surroundings throughout the day or week
From simple steps like removing things that conflict with your values from your environment (like junk food, junk media, even junk people) to incorporating new tools (like fasting or adding "positive triggers" to your world), these lessons make it possible to consciously shape your surroundings so you can lead a more productive and happier life. Hardy leans on his own story of making the decision to foster three young children to illustrate how any shift, no matter how huge, can become "the new normal" if you support that change with a productive environment.
Critic Reviews
What listeners say about Willpower Doesn't Work
Average Customer RatingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 09-05-2020
Best book since the Growth Mindset
Your environment affects you more that your willpower in order to change. If you change your environment, you can change your ways. That is the basis of this book and I could not believe how influential it is but you will understand it to after you listen to this book. It's quite a difference in paradigm and my mind is blown.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Alan
- 14-08-2018
Exemplary and inspiring
Exemplary and inspiring, changes how you view the world. Helped me make some crucial decisions, but also helped me to plan for the what's next. As with everything one must take a myriad of views and opinions, for this this hit the spot.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Emmanuel
- 18-06-2018
Worth listening to this twice in a row
The content is very rich. Loved it! Worth listening to this again to really put all this to practice.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 14-11-2018
Life-changer!
This book changed my life 100%.
I re-read it about 6 times and applied so much from it to my life already.
I highly recommend it if you are sick of the useless self-help ideology!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance3 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 13-05-2022
Inspiring
A lot of what’s in this book resonates with me and I feel inspired to change my environment to help myself reach my goals. I’m already doing some of the things that were suggested in the book and plan to add more. I can’t say if the approach will work for me or anyone else, but I was convinced enough by the research cited and the examples given to want to give it a real go.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Surprised
- 11-08-2024
Practical self help
Bite sized chunks of sound advice.
I’ve listened to and read a lot of self help books. This is the most practical.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 17-06-2019
Loved this book
So much insight, gave me a deeper understanding of what I can do to significantly change so many different aspects of my life, the ripple effect being the impact I can have on others. Thank you Benjamin for this gift.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 16-11-2020
great information and such amazing book
loved it had so much great and very true information will listen to it over and over
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 29-07-2021
Must read
Love this book. Will read it again and again to remind me to change my environment for the better.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Jamie
- 22-04-2018
Wonderful
I heard about this book from the Jordan Harbinger Show. Hardy uses a well referenced presentation that challenges the popular concept that we can will ourselves to success. Willpower can only do so much. We need to stand upon “the shoulders of giants”.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!