On Willpower - Willpower Does Not Work by Dr. Benjamin Hardly

One outcome I need out of books is a continual reshaping of usage of deceptively familiar words.  I think this is a vital antidote to premature assumptions.  

Consider the following statement:Changing our environment is vital to personal growth.  It is easy to visualize setting up clutter free environments for better productivity. Indeed Dr. Hardy’s book highly recommends it.  

More importantly, however, the book breaks down environment into external, internal, and interpersonal.  The focus of the book is external environment which includes: physical surroundings, people we build relationships with, information we let in, foods we consume, and music we listen to.

This is much more expansive than what I would consider environment, namely physical environment.  This initial narrow view is thrown asunder by the approach of the book.  The step or new perspective is easy enough to be digested while it encourages foundational shift in my outlook.

Environment is a deceptively familiar word; indeed, we are likely to use it without clarifying our intentions.  This book gave an expansive definition of environment to include the external, internal, and interpersonal dimensions.  It followed that up by limiting the scope to the external environment for the purposes of the book.  External environment was then broken down into some of its components.

As a result, I am more wary of the way I use this and other deceptively familiar words.m