For me this was the course that started it all. Studying and learning about willpower had such a transformative effect on me I had to share it with you. I realised that almost everything I wanted to teach in some way shape or form came back to this key objective: developing your ability to resist temptation, to giving in to our impulses is key to achieving any long term goal.
The true hero is a master of him or herself and this course is designed to help you develop that. The skills you will master here will be used throughout the journey, even until the very end!
This course could be done several times, until it becomes a habit! This course is designed in such a way that you watch one video a day and do the set exercises for that day. These “exercises” are very important. By the end you should have developed a working familiarity with the key strategies explained in the course.
Pillar One: Willpower is Limited
Video 1 Introduction
Video 2 Definition of willpower
Video 3 Willpower is Limited
Pillar Two: Know your triggers
Video 4 Recognise your triggers
Video 5 Planning your Willpower Challenge
Video 6 Road Map to Change
Video 7 Choosing you first willpower Challenge
Pillar Three: Desire is a neurotransmitter called Dopamine
Video 8 Dopamine
Video 9 Fight, Flight or Freeze
Pillar Four: C.A.T. (counter ambush training)
Video 10 Meet you future self
Video 11 The False Promise of Reward
Video 12 “What the hell” effect
Vidoe 13 False hope syndrome
Video 14 Burning the ships
Video 15 Shame and Fame
Pillar Five: The Infection Effect
Video 16 The Infection Effect
Video 17 Builders and Breakers
Pillar Six: Managing Stress
Video 18 Stress Management
Video 19 Reframing
Pillar Seven: Surf the Urge
Video 20 Surfing the Urge
Video 21 Watch out for Success
Includes full transcript, course notes, quizzes and infographics
Hyperbolic and temporal discounting
Two videos on why rewards are less appealing the further away they seem. We like stuff now!
Pre-recorded webinars
Webinar 1: More on willpower being limited
Webinar 2: How businesses use psychology to sell to us
What age is the course designed for?
The information in these courses is designed to be inculcated from the earliest ages, but practically anyone from the age of ten or twelve onwards should be able to understand and apply these lessons.
What skills does this course focus on?
The emphasis of the course is in building practical self control skills that you can use in everyday life. These are tried and tested strategies and form part of the core skill sets needed on the journey of self-mastery.
Can’t I just read books on the subject?
You certainly can if you have the time and energy and I actively encourage it, but the benefit of this platform is that I have extracted the most important concepts and repackaged them in the light of Islam, which gives this knowledge a unique angle.
Will you teaching these courses “live” at anytime?
It is absolutely my intention to supplement this on-line platform with lectures, conferences and especially focused retreats. Hero building is a serious task and we should use whatever means we can.
How does online learning work?
It woks best through regular, disciplined application. Some modules are more in the form of lectures where as other modules really need you to work on the exercises and apply what you have learn practically to have benefit.
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Does online learning work?
Online learning can be highly effective but it comes with its own challenges. One of the greatest is how easy it is to become distracted. The courses on learning and willpower will be very helpful in this regard.
Why do you charge for this, shouldn’t it be free?
This is an important question that can be answered from many angles.
Firstly scholars throughout the ages have written books and charged people to purchase those books. Many of us are willing to pay a lot of money to send our children to Islamic schools. In many ways this is like a school..for heroes in training. Another reason to charge is that generally people do not care for or appreciate free stuff. It is hard to find a balance between charging and amount that will force people to take it seriously and making it affordable enough for people to access. When you invest money you tend to take it seriously. All the people who I have given this course away for free (and it's quite a few) only one or two have actually taken it seriously enough to complete it, and this is despite taking promises from them to do so!
Also this endeavour is a full time commitment and all those involved, including me need to make a living. Your payments all go to supporting this work, and although technically it is a business there is nothing stopping you from making the intention to support this as a type of sadaqa.
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