“it’s not that some people have willpower and some…
Page 52 “it’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t… It’s at some people are ready to change and others are not.“ James Gordon
— from The Relationship With Yourself (Traits/Reflection) · 13 things mentally strong people don’t do written by Amy Moran.
In the book
Even the things we treat as fixed gifts are not as fixed as we think: willpower is not an inborn trait you either have or lack, and creativity is not something a lucky few are born with but a capacity that lives inside all of us, waiting to be exercised. Even the readiness itself can be cultivated: it is not that some people have willpower and others simply don't — it is that some people are ready to change and others are not yet. And to keep yourself grateful for the self and the life you already have, practice imagining, now and then, that you have lost them — it is often the only way we learn to appreciate what we hold. — The Relationship With Yourself (Traits/Reflection)