The Science of Self-Discipline: The Willpower, Mental Toughness, and Self-Control to Resist Temptation and Achieve Your Goals (Live a Disciplined Life Book 1)

working memory, impulse control, and cognitive flexibility and adaptability.

for executive functions, and thus for improving self-discipline.

meditation was shown to impact the amygdala, which is generally responsible for the primal emotions, instincts, and drives that keep us alive.

strong case for meditation being a useful tool for “strengthening” the areas of the brain that are responsible

The more you activate these pathways by practicing self-discipline, the easier it will be for you to have self-control in the future because your brain has been primed to use that linkage in day-to-day scenarios.

the more you practice being disciplined, the better you become at it.

a life devoid of discipline is necessarily one filled with regret because nothing worth doing will ever come to fruition.

amount of self-control somebody possesses is thus anything but static.

three executive functions