Paper Title
Willpower: Rediscovering the greatest human strength
Keywords
- Willpower
- Self-Control
- Intelligence
- Personal Qualities
- Positive Outcomes
- Human Welfare
- Psychology
- Self-Regulation
- Behavioral Change
- Motivation
- Discipline
- Psychological Strength
- Emotional Control
- Cognitive Resources
- Personal Development
- Life Success
Published On
November, 2011
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Abstract
When psychologists isolate the personal qualities that predict "positive outcomes" in life, they consistently find two traits: intelligence and self-control. So far researchers still haven't learned how to permanently increase intelligence. But they have discovered, or at least rediscovered, how to improve self-control. Hence this book. We think that research into willpower and self control is psychology's best hope for contributing to human welfare.
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