Notes: The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal

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This book is now my favorite of all time. I found that Self-Control has physical markers to be a particularly interesting idea, and that the best index of self control is heart rate variability which can be controlled via slowing your breathing.

Thanks for writing this and I am tempted (pun!) to get the book. And I need to meditate again as a bout of covid and other stuff got me off that wagon.

My exercise physiologist has been encouraging me to vary heart rate when walking (to aid fatigue issues) and then I see the points you make about it and I am super curious about this effect.

That is brilliant. Thanks for the nudge to meditate again!

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