I’d start this episode by mentioning two things that separate humans from other animals. 1, our ability to resist temptation, and 2, our ability to exercise control over our emotions and behaviour.

Of course, self-control matters in life. In fact, in every aspect of our lives. It keeps us social, creating deliberate practice, forward planning, time and energy investment, and tolerating discomfort. Let me just simplify it a little, if it’s supposed to be good for you, chances are you need self-control to get it or get to it. In fact, get on quora, do a search for why is it hard to eat healthy. And you’ll see one of the answers simply says “you lack self control.”

Isn’t life strange? Everyone knows that we shouldn’t be overeating, smoking, pumping ourselves full of booze, right? So why do some of us still go all out just to do such things? Do you see the irony yet? We have and need self-control, yet the things we deem as good just seem to be begging us to let go of it!

Obviously, this is an important enough topic for us to spend a little attention on. In this episode, we’ll be exploring how to develop more of that.

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