How You Can Hack Your Creativity, Productivity, and Mood Using Your Environment with Benjamin Hardy

Welcome to the Science of Success. Introducing your host, Matt Bodnar. Welcome to the Science of Success, the number one evidence based growth podcast on the Internet with more than a million downloads and listeners in over a 100 countries. In this episode, we discuss how your environment plays a tremendous role in shaping who you are. We look at how personality develops and what underscores it, talk about how to engineer your own environment to make yourself more productive and effective, examine how to battle self sabotage, and much more with our guest, Benjamin Hardy. I'm gonna give you three quick reasons why you should join our email list today by going to successpodcast.com and signing up right on the homepage. There's some amazing stuff that's available only to our email subscribers, so be sure you sign up, join the email list, and check it out. First, if you join the email list, you're gonna get an awesome free guide that we created based on listener demand called how to organize and remember everything. You can get it completely for free along with another surprise bonus guide when you sign up and join the email list today. You'll also get a curated weekly email from us every single Monday called mindset Monday. Listeners have been absolutely loving this email. It's short, simple, filled with articles, stories, videos, things we found interesting in the last week. And lastly, you're gonna get an exclusive chance to shape the show. You can help vote on guests, help us change parts of the show, like our layout, intro music, and much more, and you get to submit your own questions to our guests, which we often incorporate into interviews. So be sure to sign up and join the email list. Once again, you can go to successpodcast.com. Sign up right on the home page. Or if you're driving around, if you're out and about, if you're on the go right now, if you're on your phone, just text the word smarter, that's s m a r t e r, to the number 44222. That's smarter to 44222 to sign up and join the email list today. In our previous episode, we took a journey into the inquiry known as the work and uncovered the four question framework that you can use to break down negative thoughts and limiting beliefs. We examined what happens when we argue with reality, looked at the difference between being right and being free, explored the causes of suffering, and much more with our guest, Byron Katie. If you wanna radically transform the way you think about yourself and your thoughts, listen to that episode. Now for the show. Today, we have another exciting guest on the show, Benjamin Hardy. Ben is a PhD candidate at Clemson University in industrial and organizational psychology and is currently the number one writer for medium.com with over 50,000,000 page views recorded. He's the author of the upcoming book, Willpower Doesn't Work, and …