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    The Willpower Instinct

    iProcrastinate Podcast · Sep 19, 2012 · 56 min
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    An interview with award-winning professor and best-selling author Dr. Kelly McGonigal . In this interview, Dr. McGonigal explains her teaching and writing about willpower, with a particular focus on her latest book, The Willpower Instinct: How self-control works, why it matters, and what you can do to get more of it . What a joy it was to interview Kelly. She is thoughtful, articulate and…

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