Sohee Carpenter

Everyone says, you need more willpower, you need more discipline.

The problem is willpower...

feels fatiguing.

And the way the analogy that a lot of scientists use is that you have one source of willpower, like a battery that gets drained by multiple sources.

Do you believe that?

So there's a lot of controversy now.

But basically, that's why I and there's also some research saying the key to behavior change is not in relying on willpower willy nilly.

with brute force, it's about being more strategic about when you use willpower.

And I think the smarter way to do it is I'm gonna use willpower to form new habits, to form the healthy habits that I wanna have in my life.

Because the key feature of habits is that they are cognitively not fatiguing, they're automatic.

So the more healthy habits or the more pro-goal habits you have in your life,

the easier it is for you.

Yeah.

There's a lot of ways to do this.

Yeah.

So I would first do a nutrition... I would do an audit, first of all, because everyone's going to have a different thing.

And what I would do is probably identify a few key...

behaviors we can modify in your life that I think will make a big difference without excessive amount of effort.

Someone wants to lose 30 pounds.

They've never...