Why Your Environment Beats Willpower 🤔 — Transcript
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- 0:00They put the mask over your face and as
- 0:02the anesthesia kicks in, you watch the
- 0:05surgeon set up his phone, press play on
- 0:08an entertaining YouTube video, then you
- 0:10see the blade moving towards your face,
- 0:13even though you came in to have your
- 0:15appendix removed. He's too distracted to
- 0:18notice as everything goes dark. Now, if
- 0:21this is how surgery was done, you would
- 0:23never sign up, but a surgeon doesn't
- 0:25have to use willpower to ignore their
- 0:28phone. They just don't bring it in the
- 0:30first place and their tools are already
- 0:32laid out in front of them, allowing them
- 0:35to focus. But when you start homework,
- 0:37your phone is right there. Your tabs are
- 0:40still open and your assignments are
- 0:42scattered everywhere. So of course you
- 0:45get distracted. You didn't fail because
- 0:47you have no willpower, you failed
- 0:49because you walked into a room set up to
- 0:52pull you away.
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