How To Maximize Your Willpower & Increase Self-Control

Nick Wyatt
11 min readJun 7, 2023
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“To resist a compulsion with willpower alone is to hold back an avalanche by melting the snow with a candle. It just keeps coming and coming and coming.”

David Adam, The Man Who Couldn’t Stop

Believe it or not, both good habits & bad habits increase with compound interests. This is why the direction you choose to take every day has an infinite amount of importance.

Every strategic move you make now, will add to your victories later.

Willpower is a limited resource and the best way to increase it isn’t by constantly resisting temptation, it’s about turning your disadvantages into advantages by skillfully managing your self-control.

Willpower is the single most overlooked component when it comes to achieving your goals. Why? Because it’s those non-goal related desires that could be potentially draining your willpower.

In a study conducted by Roy Baumeister on Willpower Depletion, he brought a group of individuals into a room where there was a table with freshly baked cookies & another table with radishes. Half of the group were instructed to try the freshly baked cookies & the other half were asked…

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Nick Wyatt
Nick Wyatt

Written by Nick Wyatt

"It's not what you got, it's what you PLAN to get that truly matters." Writer & FX Trader 📈🔄🏁✈️🏆🧘🏾