[image: ]Because I’ve already written extensively about willpower here, I’m going to point you to those articles and some posted elsewhere by various experts in the field.
- Willpower is a limited and exhaustible resource. This article I wrote includes some meaningful quotes and a few links to other useful resources.
- A good general article at Grammarly. Not long, well worth reading.
- From Wired, The Willpower Trick. (The trick is exactly what I’ve said for years: make it irrelevant.)
- From Psychology Today, How to Boost Your Willpower. Practical processes and actions.
What I Think of Willpower
In the end, no matter what you do to strengthen, preserve, ration, or otherwise control your willpower, it is not the solution to a lifelong habit of writing.
And I just gave away the answer to “What is?”
More on that tomorrow.
Joel, great quote here! I think so anyway, and I wrote it out just for you. 🙂
It’s from the Daodejing, this one (of the many) a translation by a couple of English guys, or maybe they’re American, or maybe not, and who cares. This quote is just part of Ch. 43:
“it is, thus, that the ‘softest’ are in fact the hardest, and the thing that offers the least resistance penetrates the deepest.”
Cool, eh?