Vid: Self-Control is the Key to Success – John Tierney and Roy Baumeister on Willpower

“There are two qualities that correlate with success,” says
New York Times journalist John Tierney. “One of them is
intelligence and the other is self-control. And so far researchers
haven’t figured out what to do about intelligence, but they have
rediscovered how to improve self-control.”

Tierney spoke at an event sponsored by the Reason Foundation on
January 28, 2014 at New York City’s Museum of Sex. He was joined by
Roy
Baumeister, the Francis Epps Eminent Scholar in psychology at
Florida State University, and the co-author with Tierney of

Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human
Strength.

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