Augmenting Willpower

De: Joseph Zappola

Narrado por: Joseph Zappola, Starla Zappola

Heavy psychology and practical philosophy emphasizing personal responsibility, for fans of Nietzsche, Emerson, and Heraclitus. The aim of this book is to imbue the listener with a greater degree of self-control, motivation, and sense of accountability than he or she formerly possessed.

Chapter One divides the so-called "individual" in order to demonstrate how the constituent functions, including unconscious ones, are not accidental but purposeful, seated firmly within the scope of their owner's responsibility. The end of that chapter combines with the next to paint a picture of self and society as having mirrored natures, and delineates the mechanism by which societies themselves attain to a similar agency, with culture as an analogue of personality.

Chapter Three is the good stuff, the sharpened spurs of a masculine ethos to counteract attitudes supporting self-pity, lethargy, and pusillanimity.

©2021 Joseph Andrew Zappola (P)2021 Joseph Andrew Zappola

Super deep philosophy

I've never come across another book so short that manages to be ao deep. Mostly composed of one-liners that make you wanna hit pause so you can chew on them before continuing.

Narration wasn't the best, but the words were clear, and the background music was a cool change of pace from other books.