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How to Overcome Procrastination and Boost Your Willpower Using “Temptation Bundling”

Each day, after long hours at work, Katy Milkman—a young professor at the University of Pennsylvania—would head straight home, lay down on the couch and read her favorite book, The Hunger Games. This was her guilty pleasure and reward after a tiring day on the job. But, just

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This Stanford Study Reveals Why Some People Are More Likely To Succeed Than Others.

In the 1960s, psychologist and professor at Stanford University, Walter Mischel, noticed something fascinating about the behaviour of his daughters. Mischel observed that his three daughters—aged three, four and five years old— rapidly developed the ability to delay gratification. They transformed from being unable to resist short-term pleasure to