Kelly McGonigal

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The School of Greatness · The Real Reason Stress Is Hurting You | Kelly McGonigal · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

So that's like one thing that you can do.

I mean, there's so much behind this idea of habit design.

You can make your environment support your goal.

So you can stop thinking about it in terms of,

I have to have control all the time.

And like we were talking about planning ahead for the worst.

Imagine you're going to be the most tired you've ever been.

You've had a really hard day.

You feel like the weakest version of yourself.

How are you going to support that person?

And you take care of them in advance.

You know you might not want to, but you know you're going to be that version of yourself at some point.

What can you do for them?

Invest in them.

And like create an environment that makes it harder to fall off track or easier to do what supports you.

Yeah.

So willpower has a lot of different components, but I think the most underappreciated is that we have an instinct that slows us down that is in contrast to fight or flight.

So a lot of people know the fight or flight instinct where like you panic and you are ready to defend yourself or escape a burning building, right?

So that's like an instinct we have.

We have another instinct that if you know what your goals are, right, that it requires that.

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