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Forget Self-Discipline and Willpower, Focus on This Instead
personal narrative.Pastor and professor at Houston Baptist University, Russell Minick says, “The Story we operate from is the single most powerful factor in character development, not willpower.”Your personal narrative is the story that shapes your view of the world and directs your behaviors. Your ability to exercise willpower is dependent upon the script you’re telling yourself.A study by Timothy Wilson, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, took a group of college freshmen who struggled academically and felt intellectually inadequate.
