Ideally we would never have to use it and be able to swim in rivers always in favor of the current, it is generally not a good idea to follow the commitment that some people seem to have: to fulfill their schedule with activities and commitments. who test their will. Perhaps handling difficult challenges gives us great satisfaction, but also great wear and tear.
So maybe the first way to have an iron will is not to abuse it. Don’t carry weight all day, but try to make the most of our activities using gravity to your advantage. It’s intelligence, too.
- The will becomes less necessary when we create inertia.
- Inertia is understood in physics as the movement of an object when the total forces on it are zero.
- Imagine a ball rolling on a frictionless surface: it would never stop or be difficult to stop.
- That.
For this inertia in people is related to habit, for example the one that we all have is to get up, if we adopt a constant schedule to leave our refuge between the sheets, in the end the will necessary to awaken will be less It is about taming or adapting our behavior, with discipline, so that the end result depends less and less on the will and more on an inertia that perpetuates the movement in our favor.
On the other hand, if there is any help that appreciates the will is motivation, this, for example, is something that libraries do not understand, the most common thing is that if you delay the return of a book, you have to wait a few days before you can get another one, as a fine. This penalty, once the return period has expired, contradicts the assumption that the user will go to the library as soon as possible, since it eliminates his main motivation to visit the place: to get new books immediately.
Yes, immediately because the cost of not being able to recover them in two, three or four days, is perceived by the user as much less than the cost of going to the library and not being able to immediately recover other books. there are users who, after the appointed day for the return, decide to do so only when the library is on its way elsewhere, and do not come there specifically.
The relationship with motivation can also be understood in another sense, for example, when we set ourselves a medium-long-term goal, achieving the intermediate goals will alleviate the willpower needed in the tasks we least like. , 10 kilos, and for that you decided to take care of your diet and increase the amount of daily physical exercise, if you think the steps you have taken to achieve this goal are working, the effort required to maintain them is more likely to be less.
Achieving small intermediate goals is a great help to our will
The strength we have to do with our will will also depend on how we define our goals, precise, divisible, measurable, well-defined and stable goals, over which we have almost all control, will help our will. Uncertainty will be one of the most important factors that can affect our will, as it removes part of the surface on which it rests.
The will is also sensitive to self-efficacy. Self-efficacy has to do with the feeling or intuition that we will be effective in fulfilling a task, for example, I have a friend who is an athlete who has said that he has only had injuries for a while and that in recent months he has had to cancel several trainings due to these circumstances.
He said that before, doing the toughest workouts was difficult, but now mentally it’s even more complicated, he thinks he won’t be able to finish and he’s already canceled some before he started.
In this case, it is perceived inefficiency that has damaged your will. The anticipation of having to get up early, go to the training camp, warm up, start, have to suspend training and come home with this feeling has increased the demand for your will.
Finally, it should be noted that the will can also obtain very valuable help with social support, for example, sharing with the others we are leaving can help them in times of greater weakness, our will, in this case, will have to join that of all. motivation, to maintain coherence between what we say and what we do.
In this sense, social support is a double-edged sword, if we do not constantly remember our mistakes or bring anticipations that fill us with anxiety, it can further increase our will, so when we share the goal with others, it can also tell them how we would like to be supported.
As we have seen throughout this article, a more or less strong will is important, but many times the factors that alleviate your work are even more important, because any exercise of will implies a great wear and tear, an investment of our inner strength, so we must be intelligent, since it is limited.