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Willpower David Blaine Analysis

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According the article of "The more the body suffer,the more the spirit flowers" Author talks the "Willpower" of David Blaine. Why Blaine does,and what he does. "Willpower" is an immensely rewarding book,filled with ingenious research,wise advice and insightful reflections on the human condition.It was interesting to discover that there are actually 4 type of willpower.

* Control of thoughts
* Control of emotions
* Impulse control(the ability to resist temptation,we can 't control the impulse only our reaction)
* Performance control(accomplishing a task)

In this articles it shows that how David Blaine endures is a mystery,how he endured a week of being buried alive, what does he do to build and sustain his willpower? how, Blaine didn 't immediately give up when everything goes wrong during his attempt to break the world record for breath holding ? whatever thinks of his ordeals(of his psyche),it will be useful to figure out what keep him going. …show more content…

David Blaine strengthen his will power, he had train his mind and spirit that there is nothing that can stop him from attaining his goal,what he set out for. For holding his breath, he spent more than a year preparing for this feat by learning to fill his lungs with pure oxygen ,remain immobile under water, and how conserving oxygen by expending as little energy as

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