Willpower Is an Outdated Model of Success: Here's the Future of Self-improvement

"It's no wonder willpower has been placed under the media spotlight as essential to success. In a negative environment, willpower's all we have left. It's the life-raft, the backup parachute. And we're depending on it to save our skins. It takes a lot of willpower to remain positive in a negative environment. It's difficult to constantly say no when those around you are eating junk food. Or even worse, when you're required to exert willpower in your own home because you bought junk food you knew deep down you didn't want to eat. This is a huge waste of mental and emotional resources. Instead of being told to change their environment, the prominent self-help advice continues to charge people to change themselves. I can't emphasize enough how terrible this advice is. It's actually impossible to change yourself without also changing your environment. Your environment and you are two indivisible parts of the same whole."