Are You Weak-Willed?

In many cases, the belief that we're weak-willed groups are an entire approach to motivating ourselves. I see lots of people who are incredibly self-critical and believe that they need to be self-critical because they're so weak-will. This is not only a misguided view of how motivation works, as I explained in episode 23, the way you're trying to motivate yourself is all wrong. The evidence points to self-complation and plenty of reward being important parts of motivation, and self-punishment being pretty ineffective. In Plato's Protagoras, Socrates says: 'Nobody does anything under the idea or conviction that some other thing would be better'