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Willpower - Scientifically Proven Techniques to Increase Willpower

2014

How strong is your willpower? Are you often disappointed in your failure to resist your lower urges? Your willpower, controlled by your prefrontal cortex, can both be strengthened with use, just as can your body's muscles. See more...

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A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit | Judson Brewer

Can we break bad habits by being more curious about them? Psychiatrist Judson Brewer studies the relationship between mindfulness and addiction-from smoking to overeating to all those other things we do even though we know they're bad for us.

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What too Much Exercise Does to Your Body and Brain

If working out is good for you, then working out more can only be better for you, right? Not quite. Too many trips to the gym or cardio sessions could actually undo all of those gains you’ve been working towards.

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Hacking Your Brain’s “Reward System” to Change Habits

How often do you feel like it is a struggle to fight your brain to break bad habits and start healthy ones? Here’s a short video that shows you the neuroscience behind why this is the case and how to hack your brain’s reward centers to get it to do the work for you.

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Addiction and Trust: Marc Lewis at TEDxRadboudU 2013

A former drug addict himself, Lewis now researches addiction. In order to get over ones addiction, he explains, self-trust is necessary. Unfortunately, self- trust is extremely difficult for an addict to achieve.

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