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Stanford Neuroscientist Reveals the Daily Lifestyle Habits That Deplete Your Willpower Every Day

Protect your brain from these evils to boost tenacity.

Khyati Jain
In Fitness And In Health
5 min readJan 17, 2025

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Your actions reflect your willpower, a trait that your brain can develop with a few tweaks to your daily routine.

But you need self-discipline to make those changes, which exerts willpower. This catch-22 situation stops you from making these changes.

AMCC, a small and often neglected part of the brain structure is responsible for willpower, tenacity, and your will to live.

It helps you achieve your goals by boosting willpower and it’s the part that maintains your will to live.

Yet your poor lifestyle choices end up de-activating it which further hampers your willpower and tenacity.

Dr. Andrew Huberman has put AMCC in the limelight by discussing it on his podcast.

Here are the worst lifestyle habits that can harm it in the long run, find out how many of these destructive habits you follow.

You always run away from the hard challenges

Life today is beyond the wildest dreams of your ancestors who traveled from place to place in search of shelter and food.

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Khyati Jain
Khyati Jain

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10x Top Writer| Certified Yoga Trainer| I write about health, fitness, lifestyle, and more. Open to writing gigs. Contact:- khyatijainwrites01@gmail.com

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