Live and Dare Podcast: Meditation, Consciousness & Nonduality Wisdom

Live and Dare Podcast: Meditation, Consciousness & Nonduality Wisdom


Episode 17: Interview with Roy Baumeister, PhD — One of the world’s leading experts on willpower

October 04, 2021

In this podcast episode I have the pleasure to interview Roy Baumeister, PhD, one of the world’s most prolific and influential psychologists and author of the book "Willpower: Rediscovering The Greatest Human Strength", a New York Times bestseller.

Questions and topics covered:
- What is willpower?
- The relationship between willpower and self control
- How self control can predict success
- Why are we not paying more attention to willpower
- Is willpower a limited supply?
- Is willpower always necessary?
- Is there a correlation between self esteem and willpower?
- The influence of today's technology on willpower
- What is The Ego Depletion model
- The relationship between willpower and the body's glucose levels
- Can willpower be trained?
- Willpower and Decision Fatigue
- What's next on Roy's career