Benjamin Hardy
Be Your Future Self Now
How can the person you want to become guide the choices you make today? Benjamin Hardy explores future identity, hope, and the effects of present decisions. This summary follows his methods for choosing priorities, shaping supportive environments, practicing difficult skills, and turning intentions into scheduled, completed work.
9 chapters
The Gap and the Gain
The Gap and the Gain asks why achievement often fails to produce lasting happiness. It contrasts measuring yourself against moving ideals and future outcomes with measuring backward from your own progress, then shows how wanting, daily wins, gratitude, and transformed setbacks can support agency and continued growth.
5 chapters
Willpower Doesn't Work
Willpower Doesn't Work by Benjamin Hardy asks why lasting change is difficult when good intentions meet familiar surroundings. Hardy argues that physical, social, and informational contexts shape behavior and identity, then examines how deliberate redesign, recovery, commitment, and collaboration can make meaningful goals easier to pursue.
10 chapters