This is Why You Are Not Disciplined

This is Why You Are Not Disciplined

🧠 Discover the science behind why your brain sabotages your best intentions and learn practical strategies to work WITH your biology, not against it.

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TIMESTAMP
0:00 - Introduction
1:17 - Chapter 1: "Your Brain on Discipline"
2:32 - Chapter 2: "The Wednesday Effect"
3:44 - Chapter 3: "The Willpower Trap"
4:59 - Chapter 4: "Your Inner Saboteur"
6:12 - Chapter 5: "The Environment You Don't See"
7:39 - Chapter 6: "Systems Beat Goals"
8:56 - Chapter 7: "Identity Over Action
10:19 - Chapter 8: "The Compound Effect”
11:39 - Chapter 9: "Design Your Default"
12:59 - Chapter 10: “The Minimum Viable Habit”

💡📚 Below is a curated list of books and research papers that further explore some of the concepts discussed in this video. (some links are affiliate links, which help support my channel)

BOOKS

1/ Atomic Habits by James Clear
https://amzn.to/4ewYkJl

2/ The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
https://amzn.to/3I8nEsV

3/ Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney
https://amzn.to/4l5j4u5

4/ Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg
https://amzn.to/44bcnke

5/ Deep Work by Cal Newport
https://amzn.to/44DlOrM

6/ Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
https://amzn.to/4nCc3mm

7/ Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
https://amzn.to/4nwe9nr

8/ The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
https://amzn.to/46ra3Hc

9/ Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
https://amzn.to/4kkmvM8

10/ Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
https://amzn.to/4038onf

RESEARCH PAPERS

1/ Ego Depletion: Is the Active Self a Limited Resource? by Roy F. Baumeister, Ellen Bratslavsky, Mark Muraven, Dianne M. Tice
https://faculty.washington.edu/jdb/34...
Demonstrates that acts of self-control draw on a limited resource.

2/ A Room with a Viewpoint: Using Social Norms to Motivate Environmental Conservation in Hotels by Noah J. Goldstein, Robert B. Cialdini, Vladas Griskevicius
https://scispace.com/papers/a-room-wi...
Shows how environmental cues and social norms can nudge people toward desired behaviors.

3/ Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Control by Precommitment by Dan Ariely and Klaus Wertenbroch
https://web.mit.edu/ariely/www/MIT/Pa...
Examines the effectiveness of systems and precommitment strategies in overcoming procrastination.

4/ Identity-Based Motivation: Implications for Health and Health Disparities by Daphna Oyserman, George C. Smith, Kristen Elmore
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstr...
Explores how adopting an identity-based approach leads to more consistent and lasting behavior change.

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