TED教育：怎么成为一个自律的人？
1. Find a strong reason why.
A strong motivation reason why allows people to tap into willpower reserves that they might otherwise not have been able to.
2. Develop discipline through singular activities.
A strong motivating reason why may only act as a buffer or a temporary solution to increase willpower and that willpower still does have a finite limit.
Start by focusing on one task only. Once that becomes a habit, direct willpower and self-discipline onto another singular activity.
That's the key to be wise with how we spend our self-discipline and to use it on singular activities and turn them into habits before moving on to another activity.
The first habit could have been as simple as drinking water every day.
When an activity becomes a habit, it drains a lot less willpower.
3. Pre-plan for temptation.
Peer pressure. His friends represented a temptation into his old life, an easier life requiring a lot less responsibility. There were two reasons can help to overcome this dilemma, A Strong Reason Why and Plan For Temptation, known as the If-Then technique. If his friends asked him to go out and party, Then he would tell them that he had to tutor his sister and cook dinner.
If-Then technique is a pre-planned decision of self-control, and avoided having to exercise willpower to resist the temptation. This is a great strategy to use when we anticipate that there will be times when temptations will arise and our willpower might be low. It's an automatic and pre-planned response to temptation.
