Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength: Willpower

Willpowerhas become one of the most intensively studied topics in social science. Researchers around the world have found that improving willpower is the surest way to a better life.

While self-esteem is fundamental to our personal welfare, I believe, as researcher Baumeister exposes inWillpowerthat major problems, personal and social, center on failure on self-control: compulsive spending and borrowing, impulsive violence, underachievement in school, procrastination at work, alcohol and drug...