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Nourish your mind and body

Nourish your mind and body

- [Interviewer] So exercise is a key way to increase your ability to have willpower. What are some of the other means of increasing it? - [Interviewee] Another one is mindfulness like to do a simple five to 10 minutes meditations. Those five to 10 minutes of really focusing on doing nothing that is mindfulness, focusing on your breath or counting something that can really increase your willpower too. So my advice is to do, I don't know, five minutes exercise in the morning, and then to do mindfulness meditation in the afternoon and all those exercise together they took only a few minutes, but can really improve your everyday willpower and productivity. - [Interviewer] How big is this difference? Like, am I going to be, you know, 1% better at willpower if I do my pushups and my mindfulness or is it like double, triple, like, do you have a sense for how much quantitatively of an improvement we'd see with these interventions?…

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