John Wooden, the renowned basketball coach once said, “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.  This advice beautifully captures how I want you to think about willpower after reading this post. Another takeaway I’m hoping you have is that we’re all beginners when we start anything. By virtue of being a beginner, you’re going to suck before you get better. That includes how much willpower (a skill) you have. It’s a myth that if we had more willpower we’d

I’ve been researching human motivation for a while now and there’s something very encouraging I’m beginning to notice: the simplest “tools” work the best. One of those tools is marginal improvements and in his TedxTalk, investment manager Stephen Duneier shares how the habit helped him go from a straight-C to a straight-A student in college and have since helped him achieve some of his most ambitious goals. The Marginal Improvements Approach Small changes and marginal improve