Eric Zimmer
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 26 Jun
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And in that moment, self-control or willpower or whatever you want to call it is the best word for what we need.
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And so I then go on to say, do all that stuff first, give yourself the best chance.
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But then I talk about, I have a chapter called Moments of Action, which is kind of about these moments.
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It's me and the choice.
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And I identify, because when you write a book, you have to come up with clever little frameworks.
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I came up with one called The Six Saboteurs of Self-Control.
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But what I was doing was I was analyzing, like when we sit at that choice point and we go the direction that our better self didn't want to go, what are the common things that are happening?
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Because that's an internal game at that point.
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It's about what I'm thinking.
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It's about what I'm feeling.
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It's about what I'm saying to myself.
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It's, you know, at that moment, at that choice point, it is an internal thing.
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And some people, people we would say have a lot of discipline or willpower, seem to know how to negotiate that moment pretty easily, right?
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They just have the tools.
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I doubt they could even explain it.
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But for the rest of us, if we've done all the structural stuff and we're still struggling, we then want to examine that choice point.
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We want to pay really close attention to that exact time.
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What am I saying?
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What am I feeling?
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And then learn to re-script it.
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