Feb '24 • Gems 💎
Growing Willpower, Discipline & Your Brain
Here's a good short video with Dr. Andrew Huberman and David Goggins discuss how your brain (anterior midcingulate cortex) grows when getting yourself to do hard things.
Doing hard things when you don't feel like doing them is the definition of "discipline." When you experience this and get through something difficult, then the anterior midcingulate cortex (recent research) grows and develops. In turn, your discipline and willpower grows as well.
There's been plenty of times when I set personal goals to achieve on a certain day, but when it comes time to complete it my brain and body literally gets stressed out and lazy. I start telling myself all the reasons why I can't do it. For example, with exercise, I'll tell myself "I don't have energy" or "I'm too tired, I can push it tomorrow." During this moment, is the time for me to work on this "willpower" or "discipline" muscle or in scientific terms to work out my "anterior midcingulate cortex." If I push through and complete my exercise despite these thoughts, then I would have exercised my "brain muscle" (in lack of better terms). Eventually, after doing this numerous times with all my personal goals or simple daily tasks, this brain muscle gets stronger which also makes all new difficult things a lot easier to approach and complete.
This is something that we all face on a daily basis and are given the opportunity to work out this brain muscle. I encourage you all to take this into consideration every day and start to re-frame your mindset and character to becoming someone who does difficult things opposed to someone who always takes the easy path.
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Growing Willpower, Discipline & Your Brain
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