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Scientific Secrets for Self-Control

Auteur(s): C. Nathan DeWall, The Great Courses
Narrateur(s): C. Nathan DeWall
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Join an expert in self-control research for six engaging and inspirational lessons that shatter the myths about willpower and replace them with verifiable science that can make the seemingly unattainable finally possible. Packed with eye-opening studies, experiments, and exercises to strengthen your self-control when dealing with money, fitness, personal relationships, and more, this course will have you wondering why you ever doubted yourself.

Whether you're looking for new ways to resist temptation, make a strong first impression, or better control your emotions, this is your guide to understanding—and mastering—what is a frequently misunderstood subject. In clear language, your award-winning professor introduces you to the general theories behind self-control: what it is, how it works, and how you can take steps to improve it.

Among the topics you'll investigate:

  • How researchers discovered that delayed gratification can lead to better individual well-being in everything from higher self-worth to less sensitivity to rejection
  • One of the most influential theories about how self-control works - the limited resource model, which argues that self-control relies on limited energy that becomes depleted after use
  • How scientists discovered the link between the prefrontal cortex and aggression, and how people at risk for violent anger show abnormalities in that region of the brain.

Alongside groundbreaking scientific findings and research, you'll get personal exercises, activities, and thought experiments you can use to practice strengthening your self-control skills to meet whatever specific goals you want to achieve.

Disclaimer: Please note that this recording may include references to supplemental texts or print references that are not essential to the program and not supplied with your purchase.

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Professor Dewall summarizes the ideas behind self control well into a brief and effective lecture. Esp. loved the part where he says that learning to apply self-control to part of one's life can help you carry it over to other parts of your life gradually.

Excellent listen for anyone struggling with anxiety, money and finances, healthy eating and exercise, relationships and hoping to better themselves in general.

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This is my first Great Course and I can only hope the other ones I’ve purchased live up to this one. I chose this one because I admit I have issues with self-control. Impulsivity. Poor judgement. I was more than willing to take a chance on a book that might give me some insight. Professor DeWall did just that.

His six lectures were a mixture of studies, interpretation, and then solid series of steps the listener can make. Although I would recommend listening to each lecture and then doing the tasks for a week, I don’t have that level of patience and so I listened to the entire audio at once.

So maybe I could use some self-control – or suggestions on how to improve.

Improve? Self-control can be improved?

I was skeptical, but after the lectures, I’m ready to try a couple of them.

Of all the studies he discussed, the Marshmallow study was the one that stuck with me the most because I remember watching the video as a university student many eons ago. Children who were 5-years-old sat at a table and a marshmallow was put in front of them. If they could wait 15 minutes, they would get two. If they ate the one in front of them, that was it. The children didn’t realize they were being videotaped and I can still picture one of the children who played with the marshmallow repeatedly. Did everything with it except eat it. That study also included the parents and teachers reporting on the child’s self-control. Fortunately, the researchers were able to bring the kids back as adults and ask questions about their lives now. I’m not going to give everything away, but the score the subjects were given as a child was very predictive of their future. Future successes, future failures. Future love and professional lives. I hadn’t heard the longitudinal part of the study and that blew me away.

There were so many great examples of the concept of self-control at work. But I digress a bit. Professor DeWall spends a lot of time explaining what ‘energy resource’ is. I’m glad he gave several examples because this was not a concept I was familiar with and I wanted to understand. Once I did have a grasp of it, the future references to it within the book made sense. Added the activities to improve myself and I felt I got a lot out of this book.

The Professor also discusses self-control idols and although Michael Phelps or Oprah Winfrey are at the top of most people’s list, mine is Dame Barbara Cartland. The woman was prolific, writing almost 723 books, selling almost a billion dollars’ worth of books (second only to Shakespeare and Agatha Christie). In one year, she wrote 23. By any standard, that’s impressive. Stephen King has the same work ethic. They decided what their goal was and organized their environment to enable them to succeed.

Of all the advice, I think preplanning was the best advice for someone like me. The Professor suggests sitting down before the week begins and mapping out all the energy-intensive activities. By recognizing the moments when I will find myself depleted, I can ensure I have something to help me boost my energy – be it protein, a few minutes of relaxation, putting off activities that can be moved, as well as putting aside some time each week to improve my self-control. I also need to better recognize when I am depleted and understand that I’ll be more likely to get angry or lose my temper.

There are so many things I want to talk about, but I’m going to encourage people to buy the book and give the lectures a try. I think one of the most fascinating sections is “Frist Impressions and
Stereotypes”. I like to consider myself progressive, but even I, when depleted, can fall into certain unproductive behaviours. His suggestions will be beneficial to even the most open-minded thinker.

Professor DeWall is an engaging speaker and clearly someone who loves his research topics. Social psychology is an interesting field and although I enjoyed my psych classes, I never felt connected to the topics. I’m glad Dr. DeWall put these lectures together so I could learn new material without getting bored. And I plan to use some of those suggestions because, even at my age, I want to continue to grow and improve as a person.

Or, as he suggests, 'Taming the Impulse Beast'. #Audible1

Why do people fail to control their impulses?

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In these lectures you will learn that everyone has self control, some of us haven’t worked on building that self control though. There are many ways to do this, such as setting times for yourself when you will not do things like no eating chocolate after 9pm or using your non dominant hand for daily tasks for 1 day then 2 days then increasing from there or by doing something called habit stacking, after I do this task then I will do this one.
You will also learn how relationships succeed, and studies have shown that people who are most satisfied in their relationship will say it’s because both partners have a lot of self control.
Also, we can make more bad decisions when our self control energy is depleted like at the end of the day. So if you have a big decision/ purchase to make, maybe keep that for the next day.
I recommend this book to everyone, young and old.

Everyone has self control

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