如果你認為IQ、EQ很重要，現在，你該把眼光轉向WQ！
Willpower＝意志力，才是決勝的關鍵！
提升心理素質，強化你每天都用得上的意志力！
史丹佛大學的「意志力科學」課程，是該校最受歡迎的課程之一。2008年第一次開課時，為了容納不斷加選的學生，換了四次教室。有學生每星期從舊金山租車趕來上課。有學生上過課之後，戒掉了30年的甜食癮、不再對小孩子發脾氣、開始規律運動。超過八成的學生認為，這門課強化了他們的意志力，改變了他們的人生！
意志力不是一種美德，而是心理能力與生理能力的結合。更棒的是，意志力像肌肉一樣可以鍛鍊！但不必懸梁刺骨，也不必臥薪嚐膽，只要掌握意志力的本質，就可以在該去做的時候積極行動，該拒絕的時候堅定說不。它，比IQ、EQ，對你的人生影響更大！
正如EQ可以改善，意志力也可靠許多方法增強！
Based on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal's wildly popular course "The Science of Willpower," The Willpower Instinct is the first book to explain the new science of
self-control and how it can be harnessed to improve our health, happiness, and productivity.
Informed by the latest research and combining cutting-edge insights from psychology, economics, neuroscience, and medicine, The Willpower Instinct explains exactly what willpower is, how it
works, and why it matters. For example, readers will learn:
Willpower is a mind-body response, not a virtue. It is a biological function that can be improved through mindfulness, exercise, nutrition, and sleep.
Willpower is not an unlimited resource. Too much self-control can actually be bad for your health.
Temptation and stress hijack the brain's systems of self-control, but the brain can be trained for greater willpower
Guilt and shame over your setbacks lead to giving in again, but self-forgiveness and self-compassion boost self-control.
Giving up control is sometimes the only way to gain self-control.
Willpower failures are contagious--you can catch the desire to overspend or overeat from your friends--but you can also catch self-control from the right role models.
In the groundbreaking tradition of Getting Things Done, The Willpower Instinct combines life-changing prescriptive advice and complementary exercises to help readers with goals ranging from
losing weight to more patient parenting, less procrastination, better health, and greater productivity at work.
★本書中譯版《輕鬆駕馭意志力：史丹佛大學最受歡迎的心理素質課》由先覺出版。
作者簡介
凱莉．麥高尼格 Kelly McGonigal
在史丹佛大學任教的健康心理學家，《國際瑜伽治療期刊》總編輯。2010年獲《富比士》雜誌選為「20位最啟發人心的女性推特作者」（one of the 20 most inspiring women to follow on Twitter）。在攻讀博士期間，獲史丹佛大學最高榮譽的教學獎Walter J. Gores
Award。目前也是《今日心理學》雜誌「意志力科學」部落格主。著有《舒緩疼痛的瑜伽》，以及有聲書《神經科學教你改變人生的六個原則》。
KELLY McGONIGAL, PHD, is an award-winning psychology instructor at Stanford University, as well as a health educator for the School of Medicine's Health Improvement Program. She is also the
author of Psychology Today's "Science of Willpower" blog and lives in Palo Alto, California.
