Human Nature

Leaders everywhere are stretched thinner than ever, trying to do more with less, responding to constant change, and juggling competing demands that all feel urgent. The instinct is to add more—more meetings, more hours, more hustle. If we can fit it all in, if we can work harder, if we can be more productive, we will get ahead of it.

Our compulsive need to please others and maintain universal acceptance emerges from the same psychological foundation: we have constructed our self-concept around the fluctuating reactions and judgments of those around us.

Willpower is merely an idea, a thought, to say you are choosing not do to something, but when you become ravenous or a bad day at work pushed you over the edge, willpower will wane as it always does, and impulse will take over.