How To Hack Yourself

Willpower Is Not The Solution

For this year’s round of New Year’s Resolutions, try brainpower instead of willpower

Cassie Kozyrkov
6 min readDec 26, 2023

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I hate to break it to you, but if you think the solution to behavioral change is a dollop of willpower (or if you genuinely believe that you’re failing to be your ideal self because of a lack of “moral fiber”), you might be living in the 1940s. Come join the new millennium! It’s almost 2024, after all.

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Cassie Kozyrkov

Chief Decision Scientist, Google. ❤️ Stats, ML/AI, data, puns, art, theatre, decision science. All views are my own. twitter.com/quaesita